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Dear all, The MinD team are pleased to invite you to the first MinD symposium 2016, which will be held on Wednesday 7 December 2016 at Europe House, London, UK. Details of the final programme and confirmed speakers are appended below. The symposium will discuss the use of design and mindfulness in dementia care, and explore the role of design in supporting dementia care and implementing mindfulness. The symposium will further consider the importance of giving people with dementia and their relatives and carers a voice in research. Attendance is free, but places are limited. Please reserve your place by booking through EventBrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mind-project-1st-symposium-tickets-27728022261 We look forward to welcoming you to the first MinD Symposium 2016! With best regards, Dr Kristina Niedderer Professor of Design and CraftUniversity of Wolverhampton email: [log in to unmask] http://www.designingfordementia.eu *** MinD Symposium 2016 Wednesday 7 December 2016Europe House, 32 Smith Square, London SW1P 3EU PROGRAMME Time Description 10.00 Arrival and registration 10.15 Introduction to the Symposium and the MinD project Prof Kristina Niedderer, University of Wolverhampton (project coordinator) 10.30 Keynote Prof. Cathy Treadaway, Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK Prof Treadaway will introduce the LAUGH project, which she leads, and then focus on working with users during the research, including data collection and co-design methods, and how this has fed into the design development. 11.15 Break 11.30 MinD framework: using mindfulness to support people with dementia and their carers Dr Isabell Tournier, University of Luxembourg 11.50 MinD data collection: methodology & initial results Prof Vera Holthoff,Alexianer St Hedwig Hospital, Berlin 12.10 MinD design development: co-design & design propositions Prof Kristina Niedderer, University of Wolverhampton 12.30 Buffet Lunch and Networking 13.30 Design workshops and feedback Led by members of the consortium The design workshop will explore and discuss potential design responses to some of the key issues that are emerging from the initial data collection, relating to social engagement, subjective well-being and decision-making. 14.45 Break 15.00 Panel discussion Panel members: Representatives from the fields of design and dementia care, including: Prof Cathy Treadaway, UK; Sara Miles, Alzheimer's Society UK, Prof Vera Holthoff-Detto, Germany; Prof Tom Dening, UK) The panel discussion, will address the two themes complemented by topics from the symposium participants: - independence and social integration: how design can help support independence and self-empowerment to support social engagement rather than to create isolation; and - the approach to design for healthcare/dementia: appropriateness of approaches and the discrepancy between technology and user led approaches. Panel speakers: Prof Cathy Treadaway, Professor of Creative Practice, Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK, has key interests in creativity and wellbeing and in designing for dementia, and is principle investigator for the LAUGH project (Ludic Artifacts Using Gesture and Haptics) Sara Miles leads the Dementia Friendly Communities Programme at Alzheimer’s Society. With a background within the third sector she is passionate about enabling community change. In her 3 years at Alzheimer’s Society she has worked across Dementia Friends and Dementia Friendly Communities, supporting partnerships with external organisations and evolving the programmes. Sara is currently working with housing sector organisations to produce a dementia-friendly housing charter highlighting best practice and commitments around design, training and processes that can improve the lives of people affected by dementia. Prof Vera Holthoff-Detto, Germany. Vjera (MD, PhD, Gero-psychiatry) specialises in non-pharmacol. interventions in dementia, telemedicine, and neurocognition. Prof Tom Dening, Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. Tom has 20 years experience as consultant working with dementia and in dementia research. 16.00 Close (optional networking until 16.30) *** ----------------------------------------------------------------- PhD-Design mailing list <[log in to unmask]> Discussion of PhD studies and related research in Design Subscribe or Unsubscribe at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/phd-design -----------------------------------------------------------------