With a personal aim to ‘humanize’ spaces, big or small, and over 26 years of experience, Tonya Hinde is not a registered architect and stands out as a collaborative leader and interior designer in the Australian architectural industry. She shares BLP’s deeply held belief that our future is dependent on creating healthy buildings and environments, and that good design is instrumental in making people feel better.

Tonya is a strong advocate for Mental Health Design – particularly for BLP's Co-Design methodology, continuing to learn from those with Lived Experience – and has been a significant contributor to the award-winning Orygen Youth Mental Health facility, Parkville

Tonya talks with hosts Daniel Moore and Nicole Eadie today about her work on Orygen Parkville. This project is a stunning reminder that health design doesn’t need to be clinical to be functional. It is a highly awarded project which challenges the status quo.

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This is a production by the Australian Institute of Architects Emerging Architects and Graduates Network, in collaboration with Open Creative Studio. The Institute production team was Katie Katos, Claudia McCarthy, and Mark Broadhead, and the EmAGN production team was Nicole Eadie and Daniel Moore.

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