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Introduction
Focusing on pedagogical approaches to co-design with marginalized groups through storytelling, Jon’s research has been featured in international design publications, journals and online platforms such as the Design for Health Journal, IdN, Computer Arts, the Guardian and CNN. Alongside teaching, Jon founded and ran Manchester-based design studio, OWT, for six years. OWT started as an experimental and collaborative publication before growing into a fully-practicing design studio.
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Dementia is a long-term condition that impacts on various aspects of a person’s functioning. The person-centred care approach has been shown to be integral to quality of life however the communication challenges facing people with dementia makes understanding the needs of the person difficult. Our research shows that this is a big issue for people...
This book gathers revised and selected contributions to the 5th Dementia Lab Conference, D-Lab 2021, organized online on January 18-28, 2021, from the Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver, Canada. It describes original strategies in which design or creative methods have been shown to uncover, support and enhance the abilities of people...
The Emily Carr University (ECU) Zeitgeist Project is a unique design-based project concept where communication design students and residents in care homes engage in a variety of activities over six sessions together, with the goal of co-creating mini-publications featuring the residents’ stories. While the project’s overarching purpose is to provid...
The Zeitgeist project asks what role design students can play in enhancing creative endeavours and wellbeing of residents through an intergenerational co-design programme. Between Spring 2018 and Summer 2019, Zeitgeist brought together undergraduate design students and residents of long-term care homes for a project that challenged them to co-desig...
In Spring 2018 and then again in Fall 2018, residents in a long-term care facility came together with undergraduate communication design students, to co-design and co-write a mini publication series featuring resident stories. Through our project, small teams of two to three students were paired with two to three residents, to create a mini-publica...
In Spring 2018, residents in a long-term care facility came together with a class of undergraduate communication design students, to co-design and co-write a mini publication series featuring resident stories.
Through our project, small teams of 2-3 students were paired with 1-3 residents, to create a mini-publication over the course of 6 visits...
A community of practice is a collection of individuals who share a craft or profession (Wenger, 1998). Masters within these communities pass their knowledge on to novices, who then themselves become participating members of the community and eventually masters themselves (Osborn & Dawson, 2010). A community of practice is a network through which in...
