Outdoors and Connecting to the Land at Museums and Art Galleries
Monday, October 21, 202410:00am - 4:00pm
Dundurn National Historic Site
610 York Blvd Hamilton, Ontario
Join us for the next HME Mini-Conference at Dundurn National Historic Site. Discover and discuss how museums and art galleries are programming for the outdoors and connecting to the land. We will tour the historic, restored Kitchen Garden on the grounds of Dundurn National Historic Site.
Registration closes October 18, 2024.
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Schedule
10:00 - 10:15 Introductions: Welcome and Land Acknowledgements
10:15 - 12:00 Speakers’ Presentations
12:00 - 1:00 Lunch (BYO!)
1:00 - 2:00 Lightning Talks
2: 00- 3:00 Tour of Dundurn NHS Garden
3:00 - 4:00 Group Discussion and Networking
PLEASE NOTE: Be sure to wear weather appropriate gear for the Dundurn Kitchen Garden tour!
Travel Advisory: Major road construction is taking place on York Blvd. from Dundurn Street North to Caroline Street North in Hamilton. Traffic lanes will be reduced in this area to one lane in each direction. Major traffic delays are expected. Dundurn Castle, the Hamilton Military Museum and Dundurn Park remain open during this construction and the parking lot will be accessible. Be sure to plan for extra time when traveling to the site.
Presenters
Keith Francis MA, RGD
Raise the Garden: Surprise, Joy and Wonder
Urban density, sprawl, and footprint economization have increased vertical locational planning of long-term care home spaces in Canada. As a result, persons living with dementia find their living space options limited to tall buildings. The winter months pose specific challenges for mobility, accessibility, and viewing, especially during the dormant periods and seasonal affective disorder (SAD) months. Residents in long-term care homes need access to garden spaces (seeing, touching, experiencing) to counterbalance living within artificially supported environments. The presentation will show a pilot project called Raise the Garden, which combines a unique participatory design (PD) and co-design (CD) approach, which we intend to explore as part of our garden theme Ikebana therapyTM (the art of Japanese flower arranging) with residents in care, and how it may positively contribute to their feelings of surprise, joy, and wonder.
Keith Francis holds a Master’s degree in interdisciplinary studies from York University. His interdisciplinary thesis work, which merged critical disabilities, narrative psychology, spatial phenomenology, and cognitive factors to conceptualize the narratives of persons living with dementia, was presented at the Biennial International Congress on Law and Mental Health in Vienna. Keith is a recipient of the York University Christopher Innes Interdisciplinary Studies Champion Award for exceptional academic achievement, research, and advocacy and serves as a Fellow at McLaughlin College. Keith is a registered graphic designer (RGD), a member of the BrainXChange Design Dementia Community of Practice, Reimagining Dementia: A Creative Coalition for Justice, a board member of the (CHIC) Canadian Healthcare Infrastructure, a guest lecturer for the Ontario Association of Architects (OAA), Alzheimer’s Society of Canada, (FITC) Future, Innovation, Technology, Creativity, (NAAD) – Neuroscience Applied to Architectural Design, Venezia Italy and peer-reviewed published works found in Taylor and Francis Architectural Science Review.
More speakers to be announced soon!
Call for Speakers: Lightning Talks
We hope you will consider offering a 5 minute talks that address the theme of the outdoors and connecting to the landin museum and art gallery education programs, demonstrating creativity and innovation through such programs and professional practice. We hope you will share your successes and failures (and everything in between). Presenters can share types of programs, exhibition work, partnerships, and best (or wise) practices.
Presentations will be 5 minutes (or so!) and visual presentations are welcome but not necessary. For visual presentations, if they are not accessible on an online platform, please bring your own laptop or USB flash drive/stick.
Speakers can sign up here: HME Lightning Talks 5 Minute Talks Registration Form
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