How might we reimagine spaces that comfort support, and accompany people through mental health experiences throughout their lives?
Mental Landscapes is a body of trauma-informed design research and scholarship that centers psychological disability in park and public space design.
Mental Landscapes empowers those with psychological disabilities to be trusted narrators: keepers of expertise that can inform how to better design spaces that foster healing and belonging for all of us.
SXSW 2024
Kelsey presented Mental Landscapes alongside Alexa Vaughn’s practice-based research, DeafScape to foster imagination around inclusive public space design futures through the lens of disability.
Allerton Artist in Residence 2023
Kelsey was named the Fall 2023 Artist in Residence at Allerton Park and Retreat Center where she built out a Mental Landscapes overlay of the Allerton property through four community workshops with ages 23 to 93.
Summit on Combating Loneliness
Kelsey facilitates Mental Landscapes workshops at conferences, inviting participants to reimagine public spaces by integrating childhood memories of ease, observation, affinity, and awe to inform design choices.
