CDD was presented on a meeting of the “MinD”-Project

The meeting of the MinD project took place from 5^th to 6^th September 2016 in Dresden. Dr. Christian Wölfel and junior professor Krzywinksi, who participate in the project, took the opportunity to introduce the Center for Demography and Diversity to the scientists from the Netherlands, Poland and Great Britain.

The first point of the agenda was a short presentation of the CDD as a new competence center at the TU Dresden including an overview of its aims and visions, which was made by one of the initiators of the center, Prof. Dr. Gesine Marquardt. Afterwards she managed to awaken the interest of the project team by presenting her own research field.

The MinD project is financed by the EU. It aims to raise the social activity of people with dementia by making research on how adaptional Design can reduce the socio-cultural hurdles in their daily lifes. Prof. Dr. Marquardt thinks along similar lines – her project team analyses hospitals, care facilities and home environment.

The following discussion between Prof. Marquardt and the MinD participants leaded to ideas for future collaborations with the CDD.  One of these ideas is the scientific exchange between the CDD and MinD at the final meeting of the MinD project in 2019.

At the end of the meeting the ZSE made a short exhibition through the CDD-Leistungsschau (profile posters of the CDD members), presented further CDD-Members as well as one of their visions, the “Soziotechnikum”.

The meeting ended with a final walk through the SLUB-makerspace.