Tag: Lab4Living

Heath Reed to give presentation on physical product design and industry engagement at UTS Australia on 12 May 2017

Composite image of promotional image of Industry & University talk by Heath Reed at University of Technology Sydney and image of Heath giving a presentation

Senior Research Fellow Heath Reed has been invited to give a presentation and workshop at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) on 12 May. Heath will be talking about his work as Principal Industrial Designer with Lab4Living, specifically case studies involving physical product design and the different ways Lab4Living engages with industry. Following a presentation, Heath will host a workshop […]

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Professor Paul Chamberlain talks about the future of end of life care design as Marie Curie ‘Design to Care’ Programme is launched

Professor Paul Chamberlain. Photo copyright: Richard Hanson (0793 908 1208) Prof Paul Chamberlain. lab4living - Sheffield Hallam University. Commissioned by Chris Gibson at ACES marketing, SHU. 9.3.09

Professor Paul Chamberlain (alongside Dr Claire Craig) have been working with Marie Curie to revolutionise palliative care. Together with University of Cambridge and Sheffield Hallam University, Marie Curie launched its Design to Care Programme last week. The five year £3.5m project aims to build the future foundations for pioneering tailored care for people living with a terminal illness. Paul spoke […]

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Lab4Living 2017 – Celebrating ten years of design and health – Exhibition at Head Post Office

Image by Lab4Living - Lab4Living logo

Lab4Living is celebrating its ten year anniversary in 2017 with a series of events including an exhibition at Sheffield Hallam University’s Head Post Office building as a showcase of research and a tenth-anniversary book to go alongside it. The exhibition will run from 25 April to 06 May and copies of the book are available throughout. Let us know what you […]

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Tuesday 25 April 2017 – Lunchtime Seminar with Prof. Paul Chamberlain (Head of ADRC at SHU)

Image of Heath Reed (Lab4Living) talking at a L4L show

Speaker: Professor Paul Chamberlain Title: Lab4Living Professor Paul Chamberlain will provide an overview of the development and diverse activities of Lab4Living, a research group that brings together Designers and creative practitioners from within the Art & Design Research Centre at SHU and Health Care specialists. The talk will coincide with an exhibition in the HPO that reflects on ten years […]

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Design to Care: Lab4Living embark on new project in end of life care

Marie Curie and Lab4Living logos - Design to Care

Design to Care is a two-year project funded by Marie Curie and in collaboration with the University of Cambridge. The work will explore how design and creative practices can contribute to promoting dignity and quality of life during palliative care. The Design to Care programme will be funded by Marie Curie through fundraising. Professor Bill Noble, Medical Director at Marie […]

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Lab4Living’s ‘Journeying Through Dementia’: Living well with dementia in Scotland

Lab4Living - Journeying Through Dementia - Scotland

Claire Craig, Lab4Living has recently had two successful visits to Edinburgh to share her research relating to living well with dementia. Designers Tom Maisey and Helen Fisher joined Claire in her visits to Allied Health professionals in Edinburgh who are keen to take the supported self-management programme, Journeying through Dementia, forward in Scotland. This work is being undertaken in collaboration […]

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Lab4Living: Influencing the health curriculum in Zurich

Lab4Living in Zurich

Lab4Living’s Claire Craig returned to the ZHAW Institute (Zurich University of Applied Sciences) for the eighth consecutive year this month. Here she lectured to third-year occupational therapy students about the value of design in healthcare and of how this relates to the new and emerging roles that occupational therapists are developing in practice. Students had the opportunity to hear her […]

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Lab4Living working in partnership with Kelham Island Museum

Lab4Living - The Power of Sheffield Journeys

Researchers in Lab4Living have been working in partnership with Kelham Island Museum on a project which draws on people’s memories of the city. The Power of Sheffield Journeys positions older people as custodians of the history of Sheffield. Using film and photography as stimuli Lab4Living’s Claire Craig and Maria Flude from the museum facilitated a series of workshops collecting narratives […]

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