Tangible Memories: Parlours of Wonder

奇迹之家Parlours of Wonder：想象和设计多代空间的发现，连接，意义和神秘这个项目建立在成功的Tandem记忆研究项目，使我们的合作伙伴活着！（一家致力于通过让老年人参与有意义的活动来改善老年人生活质量的慈善机构）继续与我们合作，进一步将项目成果更广泛地融入他们的实践和护理环境。护理部门和专员们越来越认识到，社区参与对于解决生活在护理环境中的老年人的社会孤立问题至关重要。一起活着！我们希望共同设计吸引人的社区空间（客厅），老年人可以与令人回味的物品和我们的应用程序进行互动，以记录和分享他们的记忆和生活史。这将涉及想象和创造一个新的发现，联系，意义和神秘的空间，而不是像旧的“好奇的橱柜”或“奇迹室”。与好奇的橱柜不同，我们的“奇迹客厅”将不会由我们作为艺术和人文研究人员，艺术家/设计师和计算机科学家设计和策划。我们的愿景是，这些空间将由居民，护理人员，家庭和社区成员共同策划。护理经理认为，利用这些奇迹之家进行社区参与具有巨大的潜力，当地的学童，社区团体和孤立的老年人将被鼓励享受一杯茶，聊天或更正式的相遇，引发问题，联系，新的兴趣或沉思的机会。该项目是与Alive！，与艺术家和一个额外的护理设施，我们已经在Tandem记忆项目工作。这项研究的资金使我们能够共同设计并在环境中测试我们的原型。我们相信，这些原型，特别是我们的应用程序，具有巨大的潜力，可以增加生活在养老院的老年人与当地社区联系的机会，从而减少社会孤立感。我们知道，这将需要改变许多护理环境中的文化，因此与护理人员密切合作，共同设计这些环境中的新相遇空间至关重要。这个项目建立在并进一步扩展了我们与Alive！，布莱斯韦斯顿法院（一个额外的护理设施）和汉诺威住房，但将扩大我们的活动，以达到新的群体，包括布鲁内尔护理，不列颠中心（日托设施）和迪尔赫斯特（一个大型护理院专门从事痴呆症的工作）。它还将使我们能够与政策制定者和其他有影响力的人密切合作，扩大地方和国家项目的覆盖面。

Parlours of Wonder: imagining and designing multigenerational spaces of discovery, connection, meaning making and mysteryThis project builds on the success of the Tangible Memories research project, enabling our partners Alive! (a charity dedicated to improving the quality of life for older people in care by enabling their participation in meaningful activity) to continue to work with us to further embed the project outcomes in their practice and in care settings more widely. Community engagement is increasingly recognized by the care sector and commissioners as vital in tackling issues of social isolation in our older populations living in care settings. Together with Alive! we want to co-design engaging community spaces (parlours) where older people can interact with evocative objects and our app to record and share their memories and life histories. This will involve imagining and creating a new space of discovery, connection, meaning making and mystery, rather like the 'cabinets of curiosity' or 'wonder rooms' of old. Unlike cabinets of curiosity, our 'Parlours of Wonder' will not be designed and curated by us as arts and humanities researchers, artists/designers and computer scientists. Our vision is that these spaces will be co-curated by and for residents, care staff, families and community members. Care managers believe there is huge potential to use these Parlours of Wonder for community engagement where local school children, community groups and isolated older people will be encouraged to enjoy a cup of tea and a chat or a more formal encounter, sparking questions, connections, new interests or opportunities for contemplation. This project has been jointly conceived and developed with Alive!, with artists and with an extra care facility in which we have worked on the Tangible Memories Project. Funding from that research enabled us to co-design and to test our prototypes in the settings. We believe the prototypes, in particular our app, have huge potential to enhance opportunities for older people living in care homes to connect with those in their local community and therefore feel less socially isolated. We know that this will require a change of culture in many care settings and thus working closely with care staff to co-design new spaces of encounter in these settings is vital. This project builds on and further extend our excellent working relationships with Alive!, Blaise Weston Court (an extra care facility) and Hanover Housing, but will extend our activities to reach new groups including BrunelCare, the Britannia Centre (a day care facility) and Deerhurst (a large care home specializing in dementia work). It will also enable us to work closely with policy makers and other influencers to expand the local and national project reach.