Prosocial Place: Urban Design for Mental Health & Wellbeing

We Are

Prosocial Place is led by Graham Marshall and Rhiannon Corcoran.

Graham is a landscape architect and urban designer.

Rhiannon is a part time academic at the University of Liverpool where she is a Chair of Psychology and Public Mental Health.

Together we bring a highly developed cross-disciplinary skill set to bear on complex urban challenges. We work with communities to:

Address inequalities, disadvantage, disempowerment and the impacts of poverty
Put people first in all we do
Be friendly, informal and trauma-informed
Place wellbeing and the creation of community at the top of any place-change process
Build skills in community stewardship
Develop better links between community, public and private sectors
Treat every place as unique and starting from scratch to understand its uniqueness
Join up the objectives of social, economic and environmental sustainability for lasting positive impact
Establish a virtuous cycle between research and practice
Use evolutionary psychology and public health perspectives to lead thinking about people and their interactions with places and the context in which they live.

Together we are social regenerators, activators and mentors taking a community-led approach to managing change in places. We co-create:

Place plans using a flexible, evidence-informed and well-grounded process to enable communities to develop frameworks to lead the process of change in their towns and neighbourhoods
Design and planning of urban and landscape projects
Research and evaluation of place-based innovation and regeneration

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