COMPASSIONATE CREATIVITY: CO-DESIGN FOR ADVANCED DEMENTIA
Year: 2018
Editor: Elies Dekoninck, Andrew Wodehouse, Chris Snider, Georgi Georgiev, Gaetano Cascini
Author: Cathy Treadaway, Aidan Taylor, Jac Fennell
Series: ICDC
Section: COLLABORATIVE CREATIVITY
Page(s): 379- 386
ISBN: 9781912254071
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.
Keywords: Creativity, co-design, dementia