Design research to support ongoingness

Authors

  • Jayne Wallace
  • Trevor Duncan
  • Shaun Lawson
  • Julie Trueman
  • Kyle Montague
  • Luis Carvalho
  • Linnea Groot
  • Claire Craig
  • Helen Fisher
  • Nantia Koulidou

Keywords:

continuing bonds, bereavement, design, digital technology, cocreation, participatory design

Abstract

Abstract

This article details the development of a live design research project working with people who are bereaved, people who are living with dementia and people who are approaching end of life. The project aims to support people to continue bonds with others in anticipation of and following death. It centres on the idea of ongoingness and using art, design and digital technologies in gentle, personally meaningful ways.

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Kitwood, T., & Bredin, K. (1992). Towards a theory of dementia care: Personhood and well-being. Ageing & Society, 12(3), 269–287. doi: 10.1017/S0144686X0000502X

Klass, D., Silverman, P. R., & Nickman, S. (2014). Continuing bonds: New understandings of grief. Taylor & Francis.

Silverman, P. R., Klass, D., & Nickman, S. L. (1996). Continuing bonds: New understandings of grief. Taylor & Francis.

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Published

2020-05-03

Issue

Vol. 39 No. 2 (2020)

Section

Research Article