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Personhood: Defined, Collected, And Integrated, Amber De Coen
Personhood: Defined, Collected, And Integrated, Amber De Coen
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Person-centred care (PCC) has been a prominent topic in the healthcare industry for several decades. Although there are various conceptualizations and definitions of PCC, the fundamental idea is that the focus of care should be on the 'person' rather than the 'patient' (Entwistle & Watt, 2013). This means that to practice true PCC, it is essential to understand who a person is, what they value in life, and acknowledge their personhood. However, for non-verbal persons receiving care, recognizing their personhood can be challenging for formal and informal carers. Most current tools and methods rely on cognitive and verbal abilities that …
Tools For Opening The Lonely Black Box And Changing Young Adults' Perspectives Of Their Loneliness., Mads Bärenholdt
Tools For Opening The Lonely Black Box And Changing Young Adults' Perspectives Of Their Loneliness., Mads Bärenholdt
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1 Introduction While the pandemic was happening, almost everybody felt the experience of being lonely, which researchers has been described as a “non-pleasant subjective feeling” (Cacioppo & Cacioppo, 2012; de Jong Gierveld et al., 2006; Peplau, 1998). While many only experiences loneliness briefly as a temporality state of an emotional discrepancy, some are experiencing loneliness as a more extended encounter – which can have fatigue consequences for the lonely, e.g. due to sleep loss which can lead to depression, among other consequences (Matthews et al., 2017), and have an impact on how the lonely are perceiving themselves (Jones et al., …
Co-Creating Narratives Of Usefulness, Elisa Cardamone
Co-Creating Narratives Of Usefulness, Elisa Cardamone
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Health and social care are moving increasingly towards digital platforms and greater knowledge of people’s lifestyles and habits through numbers (Sharon 2016, 2017; Sharon & Zandbergen 2017; Rooksby et al. 2014; Swan 2013). However, among ageing populations, digital devices often enter households just to be forgotten in cupboards due to their lack of “usefulness” (Kim et al. 2022; Spann and Stewart 2018). Research shows that people aged 65 and older tend to use fewer technologies and to do so less frequently than younger individuals (Smith 2014). How can we empathise with the lived experience of ageing populations, designing devices that …
Designer-Researcher’S Positionality; Materialities Matter, Amber De Coen, Niels Hendriks, Andrea Wilkinson
Designer-Researcher’S Positionality; Materialities Matter, Amber De Coen, Niels Hendriks, Andrea Wilkinson
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With the rise of cross-cultural, participatory research projects, there is a growing need for reflexivity in the design research community. One way to address this need is by using positionality, which acknowledges the researcher's personal, social, cultural, political position in relation to the subject, participants, context, and process of a study. However, this paper argues that in design research, additional reflections should be made on the research materialities, seeing as these may also reflect the designer-researcher's biases and assumptions, which have implications for the research process and outcomes. Drawing on the example of a participatory design research project researching the …
Relational Design Practices In Design For Social Innovation: A Place-Centred Approach, Annalinda De Rosa, Marco Andrea Finardi, Valentina Auricchio
Relational Design Practices In Design For Social Innovation: A Place-Centred Approach, Annalinda De Rosa, Marco Andrea Finardi, Valentina Auricchio
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This paper reflects on how relational art can contribute to participatory approaches in design for social innovation research and practices applied in community engagement processes towards the regeneration of commons in rural contexts. Inland areas, small towns far from large urban centres, today face urgent challenges to counter the process of abandonment and devaluation. The loss of primary services such as schools and the exodus to the cities increase their fragility. In the wake of the pandemic, many reflections on the role of public space have emerged: the recovery of a renewed human scale dimension and the need to manage …