ArchDaily | Broadcasting Architecture Worldwide https://www.archdaily.com/ Sun, 19 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://assets.adsttc.com/doodles/archdaily-logo-feedly.svg 026CB6 https://www.archdaily.com/543521/interview-behind-the-scenes-of-the-university-of-toronto-s-mental-health-report Tue, 02 Sep 2014 00:00:00 +0000 Jennifer Whelan https://www.archdaily.com/543521/interview-behind-the-scenes-of-the-university-of-toronto-s-mental-health-report In a TED Talk from 2009, writer Elizabeth Gilbert muses about how uncomfortable she is with the assumption that “creativity and suffering are somehow inherently linked.” The majority of Gilbert's thoughtful and humorous monologue is about finding sanity amidst both success and failure, or in other words, about finding a way to break this link. Earlier this year, the University of Toronto Graduate Architecture Landscape and Design Student Union’s (GALDSU) set out to do just that – break the link between creativity and suffering at their school – and start a productive dialogue about mental health. GALDSU began by gathering the facts through a mental health study of their peers, the results of which we discussed several months ago.

]]> https://www.archdaily.com/498397/mental-health-in-architecture-school-can-the-culture-change Mon, 21 Apr 2014 00:00:00 +0000 Jennifer Whelan https://www.archdaily.com/498397/mental-health-in-architecture-school-can-the-culture-change The Graduate Architecture, Landscape, and Design Student Union (GALDSU) at the University of Toronto recently published the results of its first mental health survey, which asked students to reflect on their experience at the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design. Many past and present students have met the findings, which paint a blatantly bleak picture of the architecture student experience, with little to no surprise. The report brings the issue of poor mental and physical health in architecture schools to the forefront of our consciousness; however, the cool response it has elicited undercuts the initiative and raises important questions. If we were already aware of the problem, why hasn't change already been initiated? Will this always be the accepted, brutal reality of architecture education?

]]>