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Designing for Wellbeing

By Ikram Hirse

Published 29 Jul 2025Duration 15 hours

Explore how mosque design nurtures wellbeing through care, design, and wisdom rooted in Mimbar360’s Space-Keeping Model from mosque to neighbourhood to city.”

Designing for Wellbeing

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.

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Ikram Hirse
Ikram Hirse, Founder of Mimbar360

This isn’t just design. It’s a way of restoring presence, dignity, and connection in our spaces and ourselves.

Zaha profile picture
Ikram Hirse
Ikram Hirse, Founder of Mimbar360

Ready to reimagine your space with care and purpose?

Join our next cohort to explore how design can heal. Learn to shape sacred spaces that honour Islamic tradition and nurture belonging.