[ecrea] CFP: Dementia Lab 2017 - stories from design and research

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 
the field of design, architecture, IT, media or communication studies, 
etc interested in the design 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

Seewww.dementialab.com <http://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
LUCA School of Arts, Social Spaces, University of Leuven (Belgium)
www.dementialab.com <http://www.dementialab.com/>


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