Compassionate creativity: Co-design for advanced dementia

Treadaway, Cathy; Taylor, Aidan; Fennell, Jac

Abstract

One of the most pressing challenges facing designers today is how to create appropriate, useful and safe designs for people living with advanced dementia. Dementia is a complex disease that presents and progresses differently for each individual. This paper contends that co-design with experts, including people living with dementia and their carers, is essential to inform design. Compassionate Design principles are useful to guide the creative process and ensure that concepts are developed that maintain the dignity, personhood and wellbeing of the person living with dementia. The key themes of Compassionate Design are presented through examples of designs for playful objects created as part of the LAUGH design for dementia research.

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (published)
• Conference Name: The Fifth International Conference on Design Creativity (ICDC2018)
• Start Date: Aug 31, 2018
• Acceptance Date: Mar 1, 2018
• Publication Date: Aug 31, 2018
• Deposit Date: Mar 4, 2021
• Pages: 379-386
• Book Title: The Fifth International Conference on Design Creativity Conference Proceedings
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/7174878
• Publisher URL: https://www.designsociety.org/publication/40741/COMPASSIONATE+CREATIVITY%3A+CO-DESIGN+FOR+ADVANCED+DEMENTIA
• Additional Information: Treadaway, C., Taylor, A. & Fennell, J. (2018) 'Compassionate Creativity: Co-design for advanced dementia,’ In Dekoninck, E. et al (ed.s) Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Design Creativity (ICDC2018) Bath, UK, January 31st – February 2nd 2018, pp.379-386