12 events found.
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DoWell Co-Design Workshop and Lectures Series 2024-2025: Session 3
Beyond Access: Disability Culture Changing Design by Dr Bess Williamson, North Carolina State University College of Design, USA In this talk, Dr. Bess Williamson, author of Accessible America: A History of Disability and Design, shares ways in which disabled designers and activists are changing design approaches to accessibility. From Universal and Inclusive Design, to Disability Justice, […]
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DoWell Co-design Lecture Series 2024-2025: Session 5 – Designing for children with brain conditions from client initiation to manufacture stages
Designing for children with brain conditions from client initiation to manufacture stages Wednesday 30 April 2025, 3.30-5pm, Online Session Dr Ross Head, University of Wales and Cerebra Innovation Centre, UK Dr Ross Head, is the Design manager for Cerebra Innovation Centre, and is responsible for leading an innovative team of product designers to create beautiful, functional, bespoke […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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DoWell Co-design Lecture Series 2025-2026: Session 1. Designing for Connection: Co-Designing Everyday Systems of Care
Speaker: Dr Leigh-Anne Hepburn, Head of Design at the University of Sydney and Deputy Director (Design) at the Sydney Policy Lab. Synopsis: How can collaborative design strengthen the relational, social, and institutional ties that support wellbeing? Moving beyond service improvement, this session positions co-design as a way to weave together everyday systems of care, connecting individuals, communities, […]
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DoWell Co-Design Workshop Series 2025-26: Session 2. Craftwell: Heritage craft, climate futures and young people’s wellbeing
Speaker: Pete Coventry is Professor of Health, Environment and Society at Manchester Metropolitan University. His research spans public health, mental health and environmental sustainability, with a focus on developing and evaluating creative, community-based and nature-based interventions. He has expertise in trials, evidence synthesis, and qualitative research, and has led large multi-disciplinary programmes funded by NIHR […]
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DoWell Co-design Lecture Series 2025-2026: Session 3. Co-Designing Through Play: Remixing Ideas, Stories, and Systems
Speaker: Prof. Sylvester Arnab is Professor of Game Science and Ludic Design at the Centre for Postdigital Cultures, Coventry University, specialising in playful and remixing-based approaches to co-design, storytelling, and collaborative problem-solving. Topic: This interactive lecture and hands-on workshop explores co-design through the lens of playful thinking and remixing practice. Drawing from the Remixing Play […]
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DoWell Co-Design Lecture Series 2025-2026: Session 4. Well-making Together
Speaker: Dr Mah Rana, Royal College of Art. Mah is Tutor (Research) at the Royal College of Art and Research Fellow in Language and Cognition at UCL, specialising in phenomenological approaches to lived experience, care and craft within dementia contexts. Topic: Mah presents findings from a PhD case study using interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) to […]
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DoWell Co-design Lecture series 2025-2026: Session 5. Pioneering Creative Health: How Greater Manchester Is Harnessing Culture and Creativity to Tackle Inequality and Improve Wellbeing
Speaker: Julie McCarthy is Strategic Lead for Creative Health at NHS Greater Manchester, leading the world’s first Creative Health City Region Strategy. Her work focuses on how culture can address health inequities through cross-sector collaboration. Topic: Greater Manchester is the first region to launch a Creative Health Strategy (2022), aiming to harness creativity and culture […]
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Emote VR Voicer
Dr. Adinda van 't Klooster will be talking about the Emote VR Voicer project, made possible with AHRC Catalyst funding. She will show the research that has gone into developing this system that aims to improve wellbeing through active voice participation reflected in changing animations. The Emote VR Voicer recognises vocal intonation and the emotional subtext of spoken language and […]
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Creative Health, Participation and Systems Change
Creative health is increasingly recognised for its role in improving wellbeing and reducing inequalities, but what does it take to embed these approaches within health and care systems without losing the relationships, creativity and community voice that make them effective? In this interactive session, Jayne Howard and Dr Jane Hearst will draw on practice, research […]
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Stomach Ache Project: Creativity, Lived Experience & Guts
Please note: this event has been postponed and will be re-scheduled for the early autumn. The new date will be confirmed soon. We are pleased to welcome the lead researchers of the Stomach Ache Project (2021 - Present), which is an international research project and network exploring how creative and curatorial methods can provoke new ways of […]