Designed to make a difference

Visualising Mental Health (VMH) is a collaborative project established by psychologist Dr Gareth Furber and Communication Design lecturers at the University of South Australia (now Adelaide University).

Each year, Communication Design students are invited to engage with mental health and psychology-themed topics and develop novel products, services, campaigns, and events in response. The goal is to re-imagine how conversations about mental health can be embedded more effectively within our communities, workplaces, and clinical practice.

This website is an archive of selected student projects, stretching back to 2016. You can browse or search by topic to explore materials created by student teams, including posters, presentations, video pitches, and social media assets. Depending on the year of the project, different archive materials are available.

If you are a mental health organisation interested in teaming up to create topics for the students to tackle or to help us develop one of the projects you’ve seen below, contact Dr Gareth Furber at gareth.furber@gmail.com.

2020 adventure animation anxiety autism book campaign card game CBT characters children classroom communication community building connection courtesy curriculum design studio education educational materials emotions empathy exhibition feelings Flinders University forum game habits instagram journal magazine mental health mentally healthy habits mindfulness mobile app nature parents picture book posters presentations productivity public installation reflection relationships resilience retirement ritual school school programme social media social media campaign stress student mental health students toy unisa university students VMH website wellbeing

Projects

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Topic