The Imagination Café

想象力咖啡馆旨在通过将巡回展览与艺术家和护理人员培训相结合，最大限度地发挥痴呆症和想象力(D&I)的影响。该项目展示了研究参与者(痴呆症患者)的艺术作品，使用项目期间开发的创造性方法培训了其他艺术家和护理人员，并提高了对痴呆症和D&I调查结果的认识，受众范围广泛和多样化，超出了最初研究的地理重点。该项目将一个特别委托的艺术装置(想象力咖啡馆)巡回3个地点，兰德诺、爱丁堡和伦敦(地点分别是莫斯丁、爱丁堡艺术学院和梅尼尔画廊)。他们之所以被选中，是因为他们有兴趣开发新的技能和合作，以促进与痴呆症患者的创造性工作。装置是以弹出式咖啡馆的形式，在墙上展示D&I期间制作的艺术品。在巡演开始之前，将在诺丁汉设计、安装和测试一个原型咖啡馆(作为D&I宣传活动的一部分)。作为拟议项目的一部分，想象力咖啡馆将与兰德诺、爱丁堡和伦敦的合作者一起为每个旅游地点量身定做。沉浸式、体验式空间将展示D&I期间痴呆症患者制作的艺术品，由营养顾问简·克拉克设计，为痴呆症患者提供专门制作的茶点。咖啡馆将在每个地点配备最多一周的志愿者，并将提供创造性活动，由参与D&I项目的艺术家领导。在每个地点东道主合作者的支持下，该团队将与包括学校、社区团体和医疗保健专业人员在内的当地组织接触，以确保有广泛的人访问并从活动中受益。这包括提供专注于艺术和音乐的活动，以及海军上将护士和阿尔茨海默氏症协会的临时会议。与痴呆症有关的信息和材料将供公众参考和阅读。与会者将被邀请在日记室中留下评论。来自D&I的艺术家将通过全天的工作坊为每个领域的其他艺术家和社会关怀人员提供培训。这将分享在D&I期间开发的创造性方法，并将促进项目的影响和长期遗产。该项目旨在测试无障碍、包容性和巡回艺术装置的可行性，为每个地点量身定做，建立对痴呆症的认识，并展示正在开发和在实地测试的创造性活动。它建立在现有合作的基础上，并在广泛的地理区域内开发新的合作，以确保原始研究的价值最大化，并与来自不同部门的新合作者一起发展艺术和痴呆症方面的技能和专业知识，同时提高公众对痴呆症的更广泛认识。

The Imagination Café aims to maximise the impact of Dementia and Imagination (D&I) by combining a touring exhibition with artist and care staff training. The project showcases the artwork made by research participants (people living with dementia), trains other artists and care staff using the creative approach developed during the project, and raises awareness of dementia and of the D&I findings with a wide and varied audience, extending beyond the geographical focus of the original research. The project tours a specially commissioned art installation (The Imagination Café) to 3 locations, Llandudno, Edinburgh and London (the venues are MOSTYN, Edinburgh College of Art and the Menier gallery respectively). They have been selected for their interest in developing new skills and collaborations to promote working creatively with people living with dementia. The installation is in the form of a pop-up café, displaying artwork made during D&I on its walls. A prototype café will be designed, installed and tested in Nottingham before the tour begins (as part of D&I dissemination activities). The Imagination Café will be tailored for each touring location as part of the proposed project, in conjunction with collaborators in Llandudno, Edinburgh and London.The immersive, experiential space will feature artwork made by people living with dementia during D&I, offering specially created refreshments for people living with dementia, devised by nutritional consultant Jane Clarke. The café will staffed by volunteers on each site for up to a week, and will offer creative activities, led by artists involved in the D&I project. Supported by host collaborators in each location, the team will engage with local organisations including schools, community groups and healthcare professionals to ensure a wide network of people visit and benefit from the activity. This includes offering events focussing on art and music, and Admiral Nurse and Alzheimer's Society drop-in sessions. Information and materials related to dementia will be available for the public to consider and read. Attendees will be invited to leave comments in a diary room. Artists from D&I will offer training to other artists and social care staff in each area via a full day workshop. This will share the creative approach developed during D&I and will facilitate the impact and legacy of the project in the longer term. The project aims to test the feasibility of an accessible, inclusive and touring art installation, bespoke to each location, to create awareness of dementia and to showcase creative activities that are being developed and tested in the field. It builds on existing collaborations and develops new ones across a wide geographical area, to ensure that the value of the original research is maximised and to develop skill and expertise in arts and dementia with new collaborators from a variety of sectors, alongside raising public awareness about dementia more generally.