Latest Past Events

DoWell Co-design Lecture Series 2024-2025: Session 7 – Co-Designing with Neurodiverse People: An Embodied Creativity Perspective 

Dr Laura Malinin is Inaugural Director of Nancy Richardson Design Center and Associate Professor of Interior Architecture + Design of Colorado State University. In this presentation, she describes two multi-year projects where an interdisciplinary group of researchers and students engaged neurodiverse people in co-design processes to improve inclusion and engagement in community programming. The first case involved […]

DoWell Co-Design Lectures Series 2024-2025: Session 6 – The Gallery, Material and Wellbeing

Dr Lynn Setterington and Dr Dena Bagi, DoWell, Manchester Metropolitan University, discuss their gallery-based practices, which aim to improve/maintain the wellbeing of those involved in working with craft materials.  The pair, who practice as an artist-academic and pedagogical designer in the gallery context, will explore material-based engagement methods used in the gallery context. They will […]