PSYCHOSTRUCTURES seeks to understand and enhance our relationship with architecture. We are a transdisciplinary collaboration, a coalescing of psychology, psycho-social studies, conceptual art and architecture. We have developed innovative techniques that explore the psychology of buildings and the communities of users they serve. We work with organisations and their diverse publics to understand the shared and individual psychological responses to architectural structures. And to explore the affective conscious and unconscious qualities of the buildings themselves. 

Our work is based on our transdisciplinary approach to buildings and their entanglement with the social, cultural and psychological aspects of organisations. Our approach aims to help commissioning organisations understand and address problems and issues that may arise from different aspects of the occupation, operation and perception of their architecture. We can explore a building to a range of depths; from a singular event to a complex investigation of a building’s history and its continued influence on current use. For all scales of exploration we seek to enhance the psychology and wellbeing of a building’s users and its many publics. 

We specialise in psychological profiling of public, museum and political buildings, seminal or extraordinary pieces of architecture, loved or unloved structures. We can focus on single buildings or generate a psychological profile of a city through its evocative structures. We produce bespoke research, exhibitable through artworks. Each subject building enters a growing repository of significant architecture. Through our iterative process we can draw from this collection of study buildings, to showcase artworks that embody our psychostructural approach alongside newly commissioned work. Please contact us for an initial conversation.

For further information on our research approach please see one of our published academic papers here