Skinner, Amy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0790-741X (2025) (Re) Making Space: Young People, mental health and scenographic agency. In: Madness in Print and Visual Culture: Contemporary Critical Approaches. Bloomsbury (In Press)

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Abstract

This chapter explores the potential relationships between mental health systems and critical ideas from the discipline of scenography, focusing specifically on scenographic work created by and with young people who have lived experience of mental distress. Emerging from the field of theatre and performance, scenography incorporates all design-related aspects of theatre production (including, but not limited to, costume, lighting, projection, sound, and stage design). In this chapter, I identify three examples of creative practice that have occurred in mental health contexts and explore these from a scenographic point of view. My intention is to consider how applying this scenographic perspective can uncover useful ways to understand the relationship between mental health and space. I also explore how engaging in these acts of scenographic making can address one of the most important challenges faced by young people with lived experience of mental distress: the need to reclaim and express agency.

Item Type:	Book Section
Status:	In Press
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology N Fine Arts > NX Arts in general
School/Department:	School of the Arts
Institutes:	Institute for Social Justice
URI:	https://ray.yorksj.ac.uk/id/eprint/12777

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