British Council Urban Futures Program

British Council will launch the arts program “Urban Futures” from 2018 for 3 years across North-East Asia, including Taiwan, Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong and China.  “Urban Futures” program aims to foster greater inclusion and innovation in cities through the arts.  In Taiwan, we will support cross-art institutions and practitioners to explore how art can make our cities more open, dynamic, inclusive and fit for the future.  Our program themes focus on "Art & Social Activism", "Art, Science & Digital Innovation", "Art & Disability" and "Art & Ageing".

This year as part of the “Art & Inclusion” programme, we partner with National Museum of Natural Science and Chinese Association of Museums to launch the "Creative Ageing - Museum Engagement & Learning" symposium and workshop from 7 November to 8 November. As we are fast approaching to a "super-aged society", the symposium and workshop aim to use creative ways to enhance older people's learning experiences as well as promoting cultural accessibility and social inclusion in Taiwan. Through this event, the organisers wish to encourage the exchanges and knowledge sharing between creative ageing practitioners in Taiwan and in the UK. 

British Council is pleased to invite three speakers from the UK. Professor Sebastian Crutch is a professor of Neuropsychology at the Dementia Research Centre, UCL Institute of Neurology. He will be sharing his study on different dementias and their relations with neuropsychology. Esther Jones, a musician who dedicates her work on promoting music education and wellness will also be sharing her creative ageing programme “Created Out of Mind” at the Wellcome Collection in London. Lastly, Dr. Cara Courage, Head of Tate Exchange will also be joining the symposium. She has a 20-year career in the arts across all artforms, and focused on public engagement and site specific and participatory practices.

 

About【Creative Ageing - Museum Engagement & Learning】

Day 1: "Creative Ageing - Museum Engagement & Learning" symposium

Date: 7 November, 2018 (Wednesday)

Participants: 150 people

Event style: Keynote speeches and symposium

 

Day 2: "Creative Ageing - Museum Engagement & Learning" workshop

Date: 8 November, 2018 (Thursday)

Participants: 30 people per workshop; this is a professional workshop, participants should have relevant experiences working with older audiences 

 

 

 

【Creative Ageing - Museum Engagement & Learning】Event Details

Dates: 7 November and 8 November, 2018

Location: National Museum of Natural Science Conference Room (Red) and Science Classroom (One Guancian Road, Taichung, Taiwan 404)

 

7 November: "Creative Ageing - Museum Engagement & Learning" symposium

Event schedule

Time Activities Speaker(s)
09:20~09:40 Event registration  
09:40~10:40 Generation Next:engaging the new old at Tate Exchange Dr. Cara Courage /Head of Tate Exchange 
10:40~11:00 Coffee break  
11:00~11:50 Creating age-friendly museums through service design thinking Szu-Yang Cho / Director of User Experience Design, Grey Whale Design
11:50~13:30 Lunch  
13:30~14:30 Personal, scientific and artistic reflections on different dementias Professor Sebastian Crutch/ Neuropsychology at the Dementia Research Centre, UCL Institute of Neurology 
Esther Jones/ Musician 
14:30~14:50 Coffee break   
14:50~15:40 Service Design Thinking: Incorporating non-pharmacological interventions into the daily activities of dementia patients Mike Wu / Design Director, 5% Design Action
15:40~16:40 Panel Discussion

Moderator: Dr. Tak-Cheung Lau

Panelists: Dr. Cara Courage, Szu-Yang Cho, Professor Sebastian Crutch, Esther Jones, Mike Wu

8 November: "Creative Ageing - Museum Engagement & Learning" workshop

Event schedule

Time Activities Speakers
9:30~9:50 Workshop registration  
10:00~12:00 All in a day: creative and collaborative museum programming with and for older people Dr. Cara Courage /Head of Tate Exchange 
13:30~13:50 Workshop registration  
14:00~16:00 Different dementias: implications for engagement and involvement with cultural activities and institutions Professor Sebastian Crutch/ Neuropsychology at the Dementia Research Centre, UCL Institute of Neurology
Esther Jones/ Musician 

Speaker biographies

Professor Sebastian Crutch / Professor of Neuropsychology at the Dementia Research Centre, UCL Institute of Neurology

Sebastian Crutch is Professor of Neuropsychology at the Dementia Research Centre, UCL Institute of Neurology. His research focuses on rare and young onset dementias, exploring topics such as dementia-related visual impairment, computational approaches to improving cognitive assessment, and reading and balance problems. Currently he directs the Created Out of Mind 2016-2018 dementia and arts residency at The Hub, Wellcome Collection, which aims to shape and enrich public and professional perceptions of the dementias, and explore the opportunities afforded by collaborative, interdisciplinary, publicly-situated research.

 

Esther Jones / Musician

Esther Jones is a musician specialising in choral conducting, music education, health and well-being. She was a collaborator on the Created Out of Mind project at the Wellcome Collection - a transdisciplinary research project on dementia and the arts. Her role, which focused on public engagement, included a live broadcast as part of the BBC weekend residency 'Why Music? Music and Memory’. She is a tutor at the Royal Academy of Music in London and is Deputy Musical Director of the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain.  She was recently appointed Associate of the Royal Academy of Music for services to music. 

 

Dr. Cara Courage / Head of Tate Exchange 

Dr. Cara Courage is Head of Tate Exchange, Tate’s space and programme dedicated to socially engaged art, and an arts, society and place curator, researcher, writer and practitioner. Cara has a 20-year career in the arts across all artforms, and focused on public engagement and site specific and participatory practices. Cara is author of Arts in Place: The Arts, the Urban and Social Practice (Routledge, 2017), her monograph pf her PhD creative placemaking research, and the co-editor of Creative Placemaking: Research, Theory and Practice (Routledge, 2018)

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