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TY - GEN
T1 - Mentian
T2 - Developing design fiction for dementia policy
AU - Darby, Andrew Garfield
AU - Tsekleves, Emmanouil
PY - 2018/6/29
Y1 - 2018/6/29
N2 - Acknowledging the challenges placed on healthcare by an ageing population, governments around the world are introducing policies on ageing and age-related illnesses. As emergent technologies and the UK government’s policies mix and shape our futures there are numerous potential consequences and implications for people living with dementia, their carers, families and society at large. The ‘What If?’ project investigated the use of participatory design fictions to explore the future implications of UK dementia policy. A series of codesign workshops were conducted in the UK. The authors facilitated the workshops; participants included staff from a Voluntary Sector Organisation (VSO), a group of older people assembled by the Voluntary Sector Organisation in the Northwest, and another group assembled by a community organisation. In this paper, we present the design fiction, Mentian, conceived by a participant group, the process employed in its making and offer a discussion of participant ownership of the process and the application of design fiction as a method for policy debate. Finally, we identify areas for future research.
AB - Acknowledging the challenges placed on healthcare by an ageing population, governments around the world are introducing policies on ageing and age-related illnesses. As emergent technologies and the UK government’s policies mix and shape our futures there are numerous potential consequences and implications for people living with dementia, their carers, families and society at large. The ‘What If?’ project investigated the use of participatory design fictions to explore the future implications of UK dementia policy. A series of codesign workshops were conducted in the UK. The authors facilitated the workshops; participants included staff from a Voluntary Sector Organisation (VSO), a group of older people assembled by the Voluntary Sector Organisation in the Northwest, and another group assembled by a community organisation. In this paper, we present the design fiction, Mentian, conceived by a participant group, the process employed in its making and offer a discussion of participant ownership of the process and the application of design fiction as a method for policy debate. Finally, we identify areas for future research.
KW - design fiction
KW - policy
KW - ageing and dementia
KW - codesign
U2 - 10.21606/dma.2018.608
DO - 10.21606/dma.2018.608
M3 - Conference contribution/Paper
VL - 6
T3 - Design Research Society Conference Proceedings 2018
SP - 2407
EP - 2421
BT - Proceedings of the Design Research Society Conference 2018
A2 - Storni, Cristiano
A2 - Leahy, Keelin
A2 - McMahon, Muireann
A2 - Lloyd, Peter
A2 - Bohemia, Erik
PB - Design Research Society
CY - Limerick
ER -