Dezeen promotion: curator Hans Ulrich Obrist and other industry experts came together to discuss the ways in which architecture and design can be utilised to create restorative spaces that improve mental wellbeing.

The talk, hosted by Therme Art, was titled Art and Architecture as Healing: Shaping a Mental Health Economy and took place during this year's Design Miami/Basel.
It comes as part of Therme Art's Wellbeing Culture Forum, a series of online and offline events examining how urban environments can be more connected with nature and, in turn, improve our health.
Therme Art's CEO, Mikolaj Sekutowicz, paired up with Obrist, who is artistic director of London's Serpentine Galleries, to moderate the panel.
They presided over five other speakers, including designer and meditation professional Franziska Kessler, artist Precious Okoyomon, neuroscientist Olaf Blanke, artist Torkwase Dyson, Lonneke Gordijn, who is co-founder of Studio Drift. Studio Drift's Shy Synchrony installation was the backdrop to the talk
Gordijn suggested that indoor spaces can become more nurturing by making use of technology that is able to simulate the rhythms of the outdoors.
Studio Drift's recent Shy Synchrony installation, which served as the backdrop to this Therme Art talk, explores similar ideas ? it is made up of several textile "shylights" programmed to hypnotically rise and fall in a motion that's reminiscent of blossoming flowers.
The work invited visitors of the Design Miami/Base...