Participants from the University of Wolverhampton (UK), Technical University Dresden (DE), Panton Design Agency (NL), and new partner Etic Lab (UK), were hosted by Picharchitects (Pic) and Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), both based in Barcelona. During this visit, the MinD team (together with our hosts) worked on the design development of the two design … [Read more…]
The MinD project has hosted a further secondment in March 2018, jointly by the University of Wolverhampton and Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, UK. A key task of this secondment was the consultation with people with dementia and carers from the Nottinghamshire Public and Patient Involvement Group about the ‘Social Engagement Map’, one of the … [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…]
This time the MinD team met in The Netherlands again, where the team is hosted by three partners, University of Twente, Panton Healthcare Design and Zorggroep Sint Maarten, who are reflecting the interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral nature of the project. The main aim of the visit was to continue to work on the design development to … [Read more…]
In March, the MinD project had two parallel secondment visits, one at Fundacion INTRAS in Spain, and one at Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, Australia. The two secondments are the last in the series of secondments dedicated particularly to the data collection with people with dementia. Researchers of the two secondment worked hand in … [Read more…]
10 months into the project, the MinD consortium convened their first annual Symposium at Europe House, London, open to the public. The symposium had the purpose of bringing together researchers, healthcare professionals and designers engaged in improving the life of those living with dementia and to facilitate discussion about current approaches and developments. After a … [Read more…]
Participants on the MinD project Visit 2 to Luxembourg took a short trip to Brussels as part of their visit. Alzheimer Europe, the non-academic partner in Luxembourg, was hosting a two-day event in Brussels and invited other members of the consortium to attend. On Tuesday 28 June, the MinD participants went to the lunchtime debate … [Read more…]