Transforming Spaces: Memory, Mind and Wayfaring is a collaborative mural project developed at OCAD University that explores how colour, texture, and painted landscapes can positively transform the experience of architectural space for aging residents, particularly those living with dementia and mental illness. Created for the fourth-floor resident wing at Wellesley Central Place at The Rekai Centre, the project involved consulting residents and staff to select preferred landscape imagery and colour palettes, ensuring a person-centred approach grounded in choice and familiarity. Drawing from the landscapes of Toronto’s High Park, the final mural incorporates blues, pinks, purples, and greens to evoke a natural water scene within an institutional environment, promoting calm, orientation, and connection to place. Design modifications—including a painted and tactile bridge element to discourage exit-seeking, wood panels for safe tactile engagement, and recommendations for bright, indirect, daylight-like lighting—were informed by research on therapeutic design, which demonstrates that homelike environments, appropriate lighting, colour, and tactile elements can reduce agitation, support wayfinding, regulate circadian rhythms, and enhance overall wellbeing for people living with dementia. By integrating empirical research with resident participation and artistic practice, the project aims to improve quality of life while reimagining long-term care spaces as sensory, engaging, and humane environments.