In June 2018, colleagues from the MinD team have met in Germany. Alexianer St Hedwig Hospital, Berlin, and Technische Universität Dresden, jointly hosted visiting researchers from from the UK, Russia and Italy to work on the realization of the design ideas. During the two weeks, the designers and progarmmers worked on the design development of … [Read more…]
May 2018 has seen another MinD secondment in the UK. The University of Wolverhampton and Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, UK, jointly hosted visiting researchers from Germany, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Spain and Russia to work on the two MinD design ideas. During the two weeks, the designers and psychologist worked in two teams on design … [Read more…]
For Visit 18, MinD colleagues met at the Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (NHT) and the University of Wolverhampton (UW). The aim of the secondment was twofold: Firstly, the team worked with Public and Patient Involvement (PPI) to gain feedback on design ideas previously generated to help make decisions about with ideas to take forward … [Read more…]
For Visit 17, the main design phase of the project continues. MinD colleagues met at Eurecat, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya and Pich Architects offices in Barcelona. The design team worked on the development of design proposals in response to the three (originally four) remaining ‘transition areas’: Coming to terms with emotions; Maintaining social participation; Negotiation … [Read more…]
For Visit 16, the main design phase of the project, MinD colleagues met at the Alexianer Hospital in Berlin and at TU Dresden. The guest researchers and various hosting colleagues worked together on the development of design proposals in response to three ‘transition areas’ – areas where people with dementia and their carers are most … [Read more…]
Participants from University of Wolverhampton (UK), University of Twente (NL), University of Dresden (GER), and Panton design agency (NL) were hosted by Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) and PICH architects, both Barcelona-based. During this visit, the team worked (together with our hosts) on developing mindful design topics and concepts based on the design themes developed … [Read more…]
The first MinD symposium 2016, which will be held on Wednesday 7 December 2016 at Europe House, London, UK. You can find details of the final programme with all confirmed speakers here The symposium will discuss the use of design mindfulness in dementia care, and explore the role of design in supporting dementia care and … [Read more…]
The sixth secondment of the MinD project ‘Designing for People with Dementia’ in October was the first secondment wholly dedicated to design. It saw a renewed discussion on the basic tenets of the MinD framework and its application through design. Fuelled by a series of inspiring presentations and visits centred on architecture and wellbeing and … [Read more…]
Participants of the MinD project had been hosted by the University of Twente and Zorggroep Sint Maarten in Enschede and Panton in Deventer for the two weeks visit of the 4th secondment between 19.09.2016 and 03.10.2016 in the Netherlands. The first week was devoted to introduce the Dutch institutions to participants and to prepare the … [Read more…]