DoWell Co-Design Workshop and Lectures Series 2025
DoWell Co-Design Workshop and Lectures Series 2025
Advertising a series of upcoming lectures and workshops from DoWell - Design for Health and Wellbeing Research group
At DoWell –Design for Health and Wellbeing Research group– we pioneer the use of collaborative creative processes from craft and design to support people’s mental and physical health and to improve products, environments, services and interactions for health and care. We co-design our research into the social and societal aspects of health and wellbeing with the people who will benefit from our studies. Our research contributes to national and international action on mental health, disability, dementia and neurodiversity.
Everyone welcome. Please register through Eventbrite.
Session 4: ‘"Well-Maker-Spaces" - insights on the role of spaces for making healthier people and planet', Wed. 19 March 2025, 3:30-5pm, Business School BS 3.01, MMU
Dr Nicholas Gant, University of Brighton
Nick Gant is Co-Director of The Centre for Arts and Wellbeing at The University of Brighton and founder of the Community21 (.org) social and sustainable design research group. His work has helped over 50 communities, industries and governing bodies develop their sustainable development agendas through the application of design and craft practice-based-research. He will demonstrate methodologies that deploy different models for maker-spaces that form new insights into how ‘making is good for us’ and we use making to support healthier people and places. Topical setting for these spaces includes inclusive community planning, circular economy, respite care and improving natural ecosystems.
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dowell-co-design-workshop-and-lecture-series-2024-2025-session-4-tickets-1219439780209?aff=oddtdtcreator
Session 5: 'Designing for children with brain conditions from client initiation to manufacture stages', Wed 30 April 2025, 3:30-5pm, Online Session
Dr Ross Head, University of Wales and Cerebra Innovation Centre
Dr Ross Head, is the Design manager for Cerebra Innovation Centre, and is responsible for leading an innovative team of product designers to create beautiful, functional, bespoke products for children with brain conditions for the national charity Cerebra. In this talk, Dr Head will discuss the process from client initiation, through the design and manufacture stages using case studies to demonstrate successes, failures and best practice.
Later events - details forthcoming
- Session 6: 'The Gallery, Material and Wellbeing', Wednesday 11 June 2025, 3.30-5pm, Grosvenor East GE 4.05, MMU
- Session 7: TBC, Wednesday 25 June 2025, 3.30-5pm, Business School BS 3.01, MMU
