My case study for Culture&’s Memory Archives has been published in the Baring Foundation's 2020 report, On Diversity and Creative Ageing. The study emphasises the need for culturally~specific approaches to dementia care, within a wider compilation of projects bringing creativity to under~served older communities.
‘The Memory Archives project shows that not only do we need to change the look and feel of heritage spaces to make them more accessible, but we also need to move beyond objects and documents and engage with lived experience…’
Read more about the Memory Archives here.
Culture&’s Memory Archives is an innovative approach to working with Black elders living with dementia, using archives as tool for reminiscence. Read more here.
Baring Foundation, Culture&, London Metropolitan Archives
Images: Culture&'s Memory Archives programme at the London Metropolitan Archives, including Michael McMillan's West Indian Front Room; Caribbean folk~song workshops with Keith Waithe and Sandra Agard; Multi~sensory reminiscence sessions. Photos by David Baldwin, Naima Hassan and Chinno Wills~Cole.