martes, 26 de marzo de 2019

The Network keeps growing within Art and Culture as Therapy for Alzheimer!


Art and Culture as Therapy for Alzheimer’s in the Seminar: Health and Culture create Welfare- 27-28 March 2019, St Petersburg, Russia.

The seminar is arranged within the framework of the Nordic-Russian project Quality of Life - Health and Culture, which focus on how culture is used in health care and rehabilitation of children, adults and elderly people, including people with special needs. The objective of the project Quality of Life - Health and Culture is to strengthen Nordic-Russian cooperation and exchange of knowledge on culture in health care. Culture and health is a relatively new growing knowledge field in the Nordic countries and NW Russia. A healthy population has a positive influence on the countries’ competitiveness, growth and innovative capacity. The combination of culture and health cooperation contributes to increased sustainability within health care.  

The project is financed by Nordic Council of Ministers and the Health Committee of the City of St. Petersburg is co-operation partner in Russia. Other partners are: City of Turku, Finland, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm Sweden, and Ministry of Welfare, Iceland.

miércoles, 13 de marzo de 2019

Art and Culture as Therapy for Alzheimer’s at the National Museum of Korea in Seoul, 18 March 2019


Meeting with museum educators at the National Museum of Korea, to introduce and exchange ideas of how culture can connect to people’s life history, for those who suffer the Alzheimer disease. 
Spain, Iceland, South Korea – very different cultures yet the methodology is the same to approach the citizen!

viernes, 1 de marzo de 2019

Social inclusion and Well-being through the Arts and Interdisciplinary Practices (SWAIP)



















Art and Culture as Therapy for Alzheimer’s is one of the basic columns in the European partner project Social inclusion and Well-being through the Arts and Interdisciplinary Practices (SWAIP),led by Iceland University of the Arts, and whichaim it to modernise curricula and learning environment in higher arts education in relation to the arts and interdisciplinary practices.
During the two years of the project, the goal is to develop a study programme that will prepare students for working with social inclusion in their artistic projects, being aware of art’s abilities to make connections and reach out to people, increasing participants’ well-being, empowerment and strengthening self-confidence.
The first workshop took place at the University of Alicante 4-8 March 2019: “Architecture and Dementia” with the participant countries from Iceland, Spain, Portugal, Germany, England and Finland.