The starting point for this book is the conversation on mental health. The conversations
capture a specific set of circumstances in Berlin from the years 2021 and 2022. Interlocutors
from the fields of science culture and politics and activist contexts reflect on and
articulate their experiences. They render one thing evident: speaking about mental health means
also speaking about society. These conversations emerged from a cooperation between the Gropius
Bau and Mindscapes Wellcome's international cultural programme on mental health. Introductory
texts discuss the processes through which museums can open up towards society and ask how these
institutions can become socially relevant places capable of effecting change. Text: Priya Basil
Stephanie Rosenthal Christine Wong Yap
