DEMEDARTS Dementia. Empathy. Education. Arts.
DEMEDARTS Dementia. Empathy. Education. Arts.
Disciplines
Educational Sciences (70%); Arts (30%)
Keywords
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Dementia Arts&Design&Music Education Empathy Ageis
125 million people worldwide live with dementia, 10 million in Europe alone. The number of people affected increases every three seconds and will have doubled by 2050. Personal and social challenges are the result. When tasks such grocery shopping, money transactions and travelling to unknown places become difficult and people with dementia withdraw from society for fear of rejection and embarrassment, it is not only those affected who need support, but above all society must be sensitized. DEMEDARTS, funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) A-609 PEEK, addresses these challenges. DEMEDARTS is located at the Center for Didactics in Art and Interdisciplinary Teaching at the University of Applied Arts, in collaboration with national cooperation partners: mdw - University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna: W. Aigner for music education; University of Vienna: F. Kayali digitalization in schools; Alzheimer Austria: A. Croy, president of Alzheimer Austria; Haus der Barmherzigkeit: B. Hobl, psychiatry for the elderly; M.C. Gambal, Dep. Director of the nursing staff; Schulschiff: H.Schwarz, for education and international cooperation partners: S. McNiff (US), for artistic research and health, Cambridge; V.F. Gould (GB), President at Arts4Dementia; T. von Eca (PT), President of INSEA, society of art educators of the world; R. Smilde (NL), for Meaningful Music in Healthcare; The team of researchers led by R. Mateus-Berr: W. Aigner, L. Al-Mousli, C. Carli, N. Gharanshir, L. Girotto, V. Gruber, S. Guserl, S. Muzler, J. Schaitl, P. Scharler consists of art & music & dance educators, artists, teachers, musicians, multimedial art therapists, authors, designers, performers is now developing the first art-based teaching concept to sensitize young people in schools and universities, since there is no school strategy for dementia education (through art). The questions of how art and design strategies can help secondary school students to develop more empathy for people with dementia and how artistic research can affect the cross-generational well-being of people with dementia are addressed. Following the principle of phenomenon based learning, artistic interventions to change the sensory perception of healthy people and the general society are being developed to empathetically raise social awareness of the situation of people with dementia. This will be achieved through art-based methods and collaboration between people with mild cognitive impairment, artists, people with moderate dementia, teachers, people without dementia, therapists, university and secondary students. DEMEDARTS comprises all arts and aims at the development and integration of empathic skills for dementia in schools in Austria, institutions and workshops for people living with dementia & relatives. Although it is not yet possible to medically completely cure dementia, art and design can help to improve the attitude towards and for people living with it.
- Antonia Croy, Alzheimer Austria (NA), national collaboration partner
- Harald Schwarz, Bertha von Suttner Schulschiff (NA), national collaboration partner
- Marie-Chris Gambal, Haus der Barmherzigkeit (NA), national collaboration partner
- Michael Smeikal, Haus der Barmherzigkeit (NA), national collaboration partner
- Fares Kayali, Universität Wien , national collaboration partner
- Dietmar Flosdorf, Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien , associated research partner
- Peter Röbke, Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien , national collaboration partner
- Rineke Smilde, Hanze University - Netherlands
- Teresa Torres Pereira De Eca, International Society For Education Through Art - Portugal
- Shaun Mcniff, Lesley University - United Kingdom
- Veronika Franklin Gould, Society of Arts 4 Dementia - United Kingdom
Research Output
- 21 Publications
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2020
Title Encyclopedia of Creativity, Invention, Innovation and Entrepreneurship DOI 10.1007/978-1-4614-6616-1_437-2 Type Book Chapter Publisher Springer New York -
2020
Title Encyclopedia of Creativity, Invention, Innovation and Entrepreneurship DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-15347-6_437 Type Book Chapter Publisher Springer International Publishing -
2020
Title Arts & Dementia - Interdisciplinary Perspectives DOI 10.1515/9783110720556 Type Book editors Mateus-Berr R, Gruber L Publisher De Gruyter -
2020
Title Arts & Dementia - Interdisciplinary Perspectives DOI 10.1515/9783110720556-011 Type Book Chapter Publisher De Gruyter -
2020
Title Arts & Dementia - Interdisciplinary Perspectives DOI 10.1515/9783110720556-013 Type Book Chapter Publisher De Gruyter -
2024
Title EDU:TRANSVERSAL No. 02/2024 - Educational Turn / Bildungsoffensive DOI 10.1515/9783111371641-008 Type Book Chapter Publisher De Gruyter -
2023
Title Arts and Health - Österreich im internationalen Kontext DOI 10.1515/9783839466087 Type Book editors Wolf Perez E Publisher transcript Verlag -
2023
Title The Elgar Companion to Digital Transformation, Artificial Intelligence and Innovation in the Economy, Society and Democracy DOI 10.4337/9781839109362.00017 Type Book Chapter Publisher Edward Elgar Publishing -
2021
Title Feeling things with dementia carers: Arts and design as a method of Salutogenesis and Self-Tuning Type Book Chapter Author Mateus-Berr Publisher Walter de Gruyter GmbH Pages 200-225 -
2021
Title Creating an empathetic society for dementia through art: Art, Social Design and Artistic Research Type Book Chapter Author Mateus-Berr Publisher Walter de Gruyter GmbH. Pages 100-153 -
2023
Title MICA Type Other Author Mateus-Berr R -
2021
Title Embodiment Type Book Chapter Author Mateus-Berr R Publisher fabrico Verlag Pages 25-30 -
2020
Title Arts and dementia education in times of COVID-19 Type Journal Article Author Al-Mousli L Journal Alzheimer's & Dementia -
2024
Title Trubel im Marmeladenglas. Eine Graphic Novel Type Book Author Lisa Kielmeier Publisher University of Applied Arts Vienna -
2024
Title Critical Design Type Book Chapter Author Mateus-Berr R; Scharler P Publisher Verlag Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky GmbH -
2024
Title DEMEDARTS. (Dementia.Empathy.Education.Arts.) Artistic Research. Künstlerische Forschung zu Wahrnehmungs- und Handlungsmustern im Kontext einer alternden Gesellschaft. Type Book Author Mateus-Berr R editors Mateus-Berr R Publisher Eigenverlag. University of applied arts Vienna -
2024
Title vernetzt.gestalten - Interdisziplinarität und musikalische Bildung Type Journal Article Author Berger L Journal Musik, Kunst, Demenz - Zukünfte einer interdisziplinären Pädagogik -
2023
Title Dignity: Female Futures Type Book Chapter Author Mateus-Berr R -
2022
Title DEMEDARTS Type Book Chapter Author Mateus-Berr R Publisher Eigenverlag. University of applied arts Vienna -
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Title Score Of The Staircase Memories Of Our Grandmother Martha Bäuerle, Née Šegula Type Journal Article Author Mateus-Berr R Journal International Database for Artistic Research./Journal of Artistic Research JAR -
2021
Title Demedarts Toolbook Type Other Author Carli C