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Lab4Living
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Design for life and for living. Empowering people through partnership between design and health practice and research. https://lab4living.org.uk
This showcase celebrates the work of the ORIGIN project. Young co-designers and cultural partners who have explored archives and museums across the UK to create stories that support mental wellbeing.

📚✨ Step beyond the archives and discover the untold stories waiting for you.
August 19, 2025 at 10:13 AM
If you can’t make the opening, don’t worry, the exhibition will be open until Saturday, August 30th at Old Post Hall, Fitzalan Square.
August 19, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Produced by the Creative Research Assistants at Lab4Living, this exhibition takes you on a journey through the archives to uncover hidden, representative stories for mental health.
August 19, 2025 at 10:13 AM
We’re inviting new Peer Reviewers & Co-Designers (ages 16–24) to get involved in giving feedback on the stories we're working on!
🏛️ Interested in becoming a Peer Reviewer? Sign up using the link in the post!
📚 Head to our website or read the full update here: lab4living.org.uk/news/origin-...
ORIGIN Programme Update: Storytelling in Full Swing - Lab4Living | Design for Health & Wellbeing | Sheffield Hallam University
Since our last update, the ORIGIN Programme has been gathering momentum—particularly across our storytelling strand. Over the past few weeks, our Creative Research Team (CRT) have been busy working al...
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June 2, 2025 at 9:22 AM
That's why the ORIGIN Creative Research Team have been working on stories that highlight LGBTQ+ experiences, voices & histories—often overlooked, but never forgotten. Pride is about visibility, but also about listening, learning & making room for stories that need to be told.
June 2, 2025 at 9:15 AM
To see the needlework she created whilst in workhouse in person was an emotional experience, truly speaking to the importance of both art and museums.
May 22, 2025 at 3:20 PM
But the best part of the museum for sure was seeing Lorina Bulwer’s embroidery in person. Lorina was incarnated in a workhouse in the late Victorian era and Sophie and Kerry had been working on a story for the ORIGIN programme about her.
May 22, 2025 at 3:20 PM
They had a great time hunting the museum for stories, including an exhibition on Blood: Ties and Tensions. There were lots of brilliant artefacts in the museum, like a banner in tribute to the NHS and an X-ray machine used in shoe shops in the 1950s!
May 22, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Give us feedback through this survey: www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/7TBWEF/ #ORIGIN
ORIGIN Story Feedback
Please take the time to complete our survey. Your feedback is important.
www.smartsurvey.co.uk
May 20, 2025 at 4:00 PM
We want the online museum to be as engaging and representative as possible. You don’t need any prior experience, only your own lived experience and interest in either research, story-telling, arts and culture, museums or narratology for mental health.
May 20, 2025 at 4:00 PM
WP4 of the ORIGIN Research Project looks at co-designing an online museum as a mental health support for young people.
May 20, 2025 at 4:00 PM
We would love for you to be a Peer Reviewer and tell us what works well with the stories, what could be improved and what ideas you have to make the stories more impactful, interesting and representative to young people aged 16-25.
May 20, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Our Creative Research Assistants were still able to squeeze in a bit of storytelling between breaks & are eager to get back to creating stories as part of #ORIGIN!

Here’s your reminder to take a step back & prioritise a healthy work-life balance!
May 15, 2025 at 8:26 AM
It is on throughout the whole of May across Sheffield. The full programme of events can be found at
www.compassionate-sheffield.co.uk/life-loss-and-death-festival

#SLLDF25
May 7, 2025 at 9:44 AM
From creative workshops to community talks, the festival offers space to explore some of life's most difficult topics with openness and care.
May 7, 2025 at 9:44 AM
This project is funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) (Ref: NIHR204148). Views expressed are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the NIHR or the Department of Health and Social Care.
May 1, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Any questions, email Sophie and Beth at s.cochrane-powell@shu.ac.uk and elizabeth.hopwood@shu.ac.uk 📧
#ORIGINMentalHealth
May 1, 2025 at 11:16 AM