[Air-L] CFP - Dementia Lab 2017 - stories from design and research

[Niels Hendriks]

Dementia Lab 2017 - stories from design and research
6 & 7 September 2017 (Dortmund, Germany)

The theme for this year’s Dementia Lab is sharing the underlying questions
that designers, researchers and educators face in their design process for
and together with people with dementia.

These questions vary from such practical challenges as recruiting persons
with dementia to finding funding before a project begins or failing to have
a method work as expected. Designers may struggle to find a way of
communicating with people with dementia when words fail or have a hard time
coping with the stress of dealing with people who are in constant mental
and physical decline. Finally, once a design is made, designers and
researchers often encounter resistance to the first iterations of the
things designed or have difficulty integrating the designs into the
routines of daily life and care.

This second edition of the Dementia Lab event, wishes to support the
sharing of these successes and failures by inviting contributions from
designers and researchers who are designing for and together with persons
with dementia.

The event program is open for traditional contributions such as papers and
workshop proposals. Additionally, there is the possibility to share
experiences through stories as well as showcase the designs made for
persons with dementia. The poster exhibition gives the opportunity to
discuss preliminary ideas or share an experience in a poster format.
Selected submissions will be published in the event proceedings.

Deadline for submission: June 12

Notification of acceptance: beginning of July

Dementia Lab event: 6 & 7 September 2017

See www.dementialab.com for more info.

As the event is supported by the Robert Bosch Stiftung and the
Fochhochschule Dortmund, the cost to attend is free. However, no more than
50 participants can attend. We have a travel support for students of up to
250 euro.


Andrea Wilkinson & Niels Hendriks

Social Spaces, LUCA School of Arts, University of Leuven (Belgium)

www.dementialab.com