Project by the team constallation: Pavel Naydenov, Bana Saadeh, Gabriela U. Reyes.
Facade Stage is a project is placed in Haus St Barbara, Vienna. It is home
for Eld
erly people where approximately 85% of its inhabitants have dementia.
Caritas and the Social Design Studio, in
col
laboration, presented a framework in order to change the back Facade of the
building, now very opaque and dusty, and propose and design a space,
environment that could be used as a tool of communication, representation, or
even dreaming for their residents.
However, being in a context where we have to deal
with Dementia, (a group of symptoms associated with a decline in memory, severe
enough to reduce a person's ability to perform everyday activities), questions
during this process were raised in order to understand what we cannot control
and what elements can we prioritize in the design process:
What types of memories elderly carry with them? What memories do they bring
to places in order to not forget? Could a Facade be able to transmit feelings
or positive reactions? What can we design that is beautiful for an elderly
person? And would be the same thing also beautiful for a person dementia? Or
should we design only a tool of distraction to take people out of the daily day
boredom? How?
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