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Launching the Creativity, Art and Design (CAD) SIG
with a presentation on “Arts, Agency and Ageing” by Dr Gail Kenning
Join us to officially launch the Creativity, Art, and Design (CAD) SIG! This SIG 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.
Our first priority is to develop an engaged and supportive community of practice in this space – and so you are warmly invited to this online event. QUT’s Professor Evonne Miller will outline the SIG aims, objectives and activities, before handing over to Dr Gail Kenning from UNSW to present on “Arts, Agency and Ageing”, with the closing Q & A facilitated by facilitated by Mark Silver from Swinburne.
- Understand aims and objectives of this new AAG Creativity, Art and Design (CAD) SIG
- Hear about new arts-informed projects
- Develop practical and impactful strategies for implementing design and arts-based approaches into your research practice
Introduction and closing comments by:
Professor Evonne Miller
Director of the QUT Design Lab at Queensland University of Technology
and 2023 AAG Conference Chair
Evonne's research focuses on redesigning healthcare and aged care systems for the future, using design and creative arts methods. After being quite ignorant about the potential of AI, Evonne hurt her hand recently, which motivated her to engage with ChatGPT - and she has been pleasantly surprised at just how smart and sophisticated ChatGPT is! Working with AI is very likely the next 'computer literacy' competence we may well need , and Evonne wants to start a conversation about how technology can help us succeed.
Dr Tricia King
Lecturer, Photography
University of the Sunshine Coast
Dr Tricia King is a researcher in creative arts health projects for wellbeing focusing on creative engagement with older people through photographic and creative practices.
Tricia’s creative practice explores interdisciplinary place-based projects which investigate how remote embodied experiences of natural environments can facilitate ecological empathy, cultural knowledge and connection to place.
She is currently a member of the Australian Association of Gerontology’s Student and Early Career Researcher Communications Working Group, the Queensland Arts Health Network, University of the Sunshine Coast’s Non-Traditional Research Outputs Committee and the University of the Sunshine Coast’s Research Communications Working Party.
and featuring:
Dr Gail Kennings
Researcher
University of NSW
Dr Gail Kenning’s work is located at the intersection of art, design, and creativity and how these can contribute to health and wellbeing, with a particular focus on ageing and dementia. Her research and practice explore creativity and health from two perspectives: (1) how creativity can support and facilitate health and wellbeing; and (2) how creative approaches can be applied in the collection of data to better understand the concerns, needs, and embodied lived experience of elderly people in relation to physical and mental health and social engagement/disengagement and connection/disconnection.
Q&A session facilitated by:
Mark Silver MSW
Swinburne University Wellbeing Clinic for Older Adults
Mark has been a Social Worker in Aged Care & Disability for over 40 years with a keen interest in the use of narrative, reminiscence and stories in his work. He has been co-coordinating the Swinburne University Wellbeing Clinic for Older Adults for the past 10 years; advocating strongly for a greater presence of mental health professionals, working as a team within age care settings as well as for improved practicum training programs for students and practitioners alike.