The AAG CADSIG was established in 2023.
CADSIG facilitates collaboration and connections to enhance our understanding, adoption and evaluation of creativity, art and design in ageing.
CADSIG's five key goals are to:
- Demonstrate the value of creative arts engagement (visual, performing, and digital, for example, music, singing, theatre, visual arts, dance etc) for older people’s health and wellbeing, with a focus on disabilities, dementia, and residential aged care
- Share how design and arts-based methods can be used in ageing research, from data collection, analysis to engagement and dissemination
- Use art to change conversations, confronting and disrupting stereotypes about age and ageing
- Understand the transformative and therapeutic nature that lies behind CAD work and interventions
- Foster collaboration, information, and resource-sharing in creativity, art, and design in ageing through co-design principles.
CADSIG is committed to identifying, amplifying, and leveraging the potential of creativity, art, and design (participating, performing, creating, and making) to positively transform the experience of ageing. It is closely aligned with AAG's purpose and priorities, which emphasises the importance of a multi-disciplinary approach to ageing, and a collaborative, partnership approach. Through this SIG, AAG has taken the opportunity to be a thought leader in this space, amplifying the value and impact of arts in ageing.
The convenor of CADSIG is Professor Evonne Miller.
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