Designing for Wellbeing
By Ikram Hirse
Explore how mosque design nurtures wellbeing through care, design, and wisdom rooted in Mimbar360’s Space-Keeping Model from mosque to neighbourhood to city.
What we’ll learn together
Learn to shape spaces that heal and hold. A quiet practice in design that honours tradition, nurtures belonging, and invites presence. Each module blends theory with reflective and embodied practice, inviting participants to move, notice, design, and co-create.
Apply trauma-informed design principles
Create spaces that support healing and emotional wellbeing for diverse community members.
Conduct comprehensive site audits
Use systematic assessment tools to evaluate existing spaces and identify improvement opportunities.
Integrate biophilic design elements
Encourages attentiveness to nature, sensory experiences, and sacred aesthetics slowing down and noticing the subtle.
Design inclusive, accessible spaces
Deepens connection across generations, needs, and communities by fostering welcome and belonging.
Facilitate community engagement
Lead participatory design processes that center community voices and needs.
Measure wellbeing outcomes
Develop frameworks to assess the impact of design interventions on community health.
Course Structure
Hear from participants who have transformed their communities through this course.
For those who shape scared spaces
For imams, board members, and community organisers reimagining sacred space for today’s needs. At its heart, this course shows why we favour the multi-scalar Space-Keeping Model: it isn’t only about creating spaces of care, but tending to them across scales. From the prayer mat to the neighbourhood garden, from community halls to city planning, design becomes a living act of wellbeing.
Mosque Leaders
Imams, board members, and community organizers seeking to enhance their sacred spaces.
Architects & Designers
Built environment professionals working on mosque projects or exploring culturally responsive, human-centred design.
Public Health Professionals
Professionals at the intersection of mental health, built environment, and community wellbeing.
Students & Researchers
Graduate students and academics studying Islamic architecture, public health, or community development.
Certification & Learning recognition
This course offers a Mimbar360 Certificate of Completion and is designed to align with professional development goals. We are in the process of building partnerships for formal CPD accreditation and sector recognition.
Mimbar360 Certificate of Completion
Awarded upon successful completion of all course modules.
Collaborative Partners (forthcoming)
We are actively building partnerships across design, mental health, and Islamic heritage sectors.
About the Course
Duration:
15 Hours 5 weeks
Format:
- Self-Paced
- Live Cohort
- Train-the-Trainer
- In-Person
Certification:
Digital Certificate
Cost:
£100
Publication Date:
29 Jul 2025
This isn’t just design. It’s a way of restoring presence, dignity, and connection in our spaces and ourselves.
This isn’t just design. It’s a way of restoring presence, dignity, and connection in our spaces and ourselves.
Ready to reimagine your space with care and purpose?
This course is rooted in Mimbar360’s Space-Keeping Model, which understands sacred spaces as living systems shaped not only by architecture, but by relationships, rhythms, care, and use over time. From mosque to neighbourhood to city, design becomes a practice of tending, not fixing.