The LAUGH project’s PI Prof Cathy Treadaway, recently talked about our work on Ujima Radio. Listen here: from 33 mins.
Cathy on Radio Ujima, Bristol
Design & Emotion conference 2016
The LAUGH team recently presented the findings from workshop 2 at the Design & Emotion conference in Amsterdam. Here is a link to the paper – ‘LAUGH: Designing to enhance positive emotion for people living with dementia.’
LAUGH project & Waag Society workshop, Amsterdam
Members of the LAUGH team ran a workshop with the WAAG society and Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences as part of the Design & Emotion conference. The workshop ‘Design for our future self’, explored new ways to give a ‘voice’ to users’ needs within the context of dementia. The workshop was held in the Theatrum Anatomicum in the centre of Amsterdam and looked at existing solutions and methodologies to explore the future scenarios of needs within the growing dementia landscape.
Understanding Dementia Conference, Innovation in Practice 2016 #USWDEM16
The team recently presented a poster at the Understanding Dementia Conference 2016 on the LAUGH research, winning ‘Best Poster’.
#USWDEM16
Well-Being 2016
The LAUGH team recently attended the Well-Being 2016 Conference at Birmingham City University to present the paper ‘Designing for wellbeing in late stage dementia’.
The Vale of Glamorgan show
The CARIAD team supported the Alzheimer’s Society at The Vale of Glamorgan show, by running Hand i Pocket sessions. Visitors to the show were invited to stitch sensory textile pockets for people with advanced dementia and the Alzheimer’s Society were on hand to offer advice and support.
CARIAD work featured in ‘Dementia Journey’ blog
Prof Cathy Treadaway’s work has been featured by Deborah Shouse on her blog ‘Dementia Journey’. ‘The Inside Story of Designing for Dementia’
Design Research Society 2016
The LAUGH team recently attended the DRS2016: Design Research Society 50th Anniversary Conference in Brighton to present the paper ‘In the moment: designing for late stage dementia’.
The full paper can be found here.
Wales Festival of Innovation
CARIAD threw open its doors this month to share its pioneering design research. The LAUGH project team, based in CARIAD, are working with health professionals and the care sector to develop playful objects to be used in the care of people with late stage dementia.
The LAUGH design Challenge took place in PDR at Cardiff Metropolitan University’s Llandaff Campus, and invited the public with an interest in design and technology to get involved as part of the showcase Wales Festival of Innovation, a national programme of events to celebrate ground-breaking activity in Wales.
The LAUGH team, which includes researchers from universities in the UK and Australia, gave participants the opportunity to use their expertise to help develop new products to stimulate laughter and fun for people living with advanced dementia.
This was one of dozens of participants in the Festival, which is organised jointly by the ESTnet (the technology network for Wales), the Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN) and MediWales with the support of Welsh Government and industry partners.
Wychwood Festival
CARIAD members recently ran a series of Hand i Pocket ‘funshops’ at the Wychwood Festival (3rd – 5th June 2016). These sessions offered visitors to the festival the opportunity to get creative and make a sensory textile ‘Hand i Pocket’ for someone with late stage dementia. A Hand i Pocket is a stitched textile pocket that looks colourful, is interesting to touch and comforting to feel that will stimulate and amuse someone with late stage dementia.
Working with Age Cymru and Dementia & Imagination (Bangor Univeristy) at the festival, CARIAD’s Funshops were a great success with many pockets made.
Hand i Pocket Funshops are a global community network making textiles for people with dementia. More information about Hand i Pockets can be found at: www.laughproject.info or www.handsproject.info