E. Winton

Heriot-Watt University

Dementia strips people of the unique attributes that form a person’s identity, but it is suggested that how we relate to the world emotionally is one of the last things to escape us (Evans, 2001). Therefore, it is imperative to work within models of care that recognise and engage with how people living with dementia feel about things they are engag...

This paper reports on the authors’ Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funded work that is developing and implementing innovative design interventions that encourage people living with dementia to remain creatively active, promote dignity, and encourage independence. This work examines how the integrative, inclusive, and collaborative actio...

The UK has an ageing population where there are now more people aged over 65 than those under the age of 16. The impact of this creates increased pressures on the National Health Service (NHS), and on local and regional health and social care services. Key concerns in regards to this aging population include the prevalence of the five most common c...

This work explores where design should care, from the perspective of caring about carers of people who have degenerative mental conditions such as Alzheimer’s or other forms of dementia. In the current epoch caring is delivered through many different structures, from organised and centralised systems of paid for services, through to ad-hoc respons...

This paper presents ongoing research that adopts an open and truly collaborative approach to working with people living with dementia by recognising and utilising the inherent personal creative abilities that every individual possesses-no matter their cognitive ability. The research project entitled "Designed with Me", via a series of carefully dev...

This paper presents on-going research that adopts an open and truly collaborative approach to working with people living with dementia by recognising and utilising the inherent personal creative abilities that every individual possesses - no matter their cognitive ability. The research project entitled “Designed with Me”, via a series of carefully...

In the fall of 1991 the Munich Design Charter was published in Design Issues. This charter was written as a design-led "call to arms" on the future nations and boundaries of Europe. The signatories of the Munich Design Charter saw the problem of Europe, at that time, as fundamentally a problem of form that should draw on the creativity and expertis...

This paper presents an ongoing research project situated within the investigative context of design and dementia. The work adopts an open approach to working with people living with dementia by recognising and utilising the inherent personal creative abilities that every individual possesses no matter their cognitive ability. Through a series of ca...

This paper presents ongoing research that highlights how design thinking and acting can contribute significantly to breaking down preconceived ideas about what people living with dementia are capable of doing. The research, undertaken in collaboration with Alzheimer Scotland and other dementia organisations across the UK, has adopted a range of dis...

This work explores where design should care, from the perspective of caring about carers of people who have degenerative mental conditions such as Alzheimer’s or other forms of dementia. In the current epoch caring is delivered through many different structures, from organised and centralised systems of paid for services, through to ad-hoc respons...

Several design writers have proposed, or at least implied, that " …we are all designers… " through the way we manipulate the environment around us, select the items we wish to own, plan, build, buy, arrange, and restructure things all in a form of design [1, 2]. During the same time, design as a behavioural phenomenon has increased its capacity and...

The "Remodelling Home" project was created for Scotland's Housing Expo by Claystation, in collaboration with Sustainability, the Scottish Government's mechanism for promoting sustainable design in the built environment. The Expo was the first event of its kind in Scotland and based upon similar models found in mainland Europe, where historically th...

The latest buzz phrase to enter the world of design research is “Design Thinking”. But is this anything new and does it really have any practical or theoretical relevance to the design world? Many sceptics believe the term has more to do with business strategy and little to do with the complex process of designing products, services and systems. Mo...

The latest buzz phrase to enter the world of design research is "Design Thinking". But is this anything new and does it really have any practical or theoretical relevance to the design world? Many sceptics believe the term has more to do with business strategy and little to do with the complex process of designing products, services and systems. Mo...