ADLab Webinar: Dear future self with dementia. Articulating inclusive futures through letter writing (Annelieke Driessen and Hannah Cowan, London)

Blurb

In this webinar, Annelieke and Hannah present on their work that asks people to imagine and speculate about a possible future for themselves with dementia by writing their future self a letter. The project seeks to challenge ageist and ableist assumptions, and to contribute to the articulation, and realisation, of inclusive futures.

Annelieke Driessen is assistant professor in medical anthropology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. In her PhD she ethnographically explored how institutional care practices in the Netherlands may give rise to ‘interesting subject positions’ for people with dementia, namely those that diverged from the dominant imaginary of what it is like to live with advanced dementia.

Hannah Cowan is a Research Associate at King’s College London and is interested in activism, social inequalities, and health. Her current work focuses on speculative futures, and looks to develop creative practices which reclaim utopian thinking as a method for collectively imagining futures in which we would all like to live.

 

 

 

 

 

In conversation with...

• Dragana Lukic: PhD researcher within Artful Dementia Research Lab, just recently delivered her PhD thesis entitled "Exploring Alzheimer's Disease and other Dementias in Fiction Film Adaptations and Co-creative Arts Sessions".
• Lilli Mittner: initiator of the Artful Dementia Research Lab, researching how situated art interventions can enable us to better understand and simultaneously change the world.

Contact

Please contact Lilli Mittner if you have any questions. 

Organizer 

Artful Dementia Research Lab 

Recording