2. Design for Elderly with Dementia:
Light,
Traditional Dynamic Arts
Sound and
Movement

3. • performance events including
theatre, music, dance, opera
• production equipment and services like:
staging, scenery, mechanicals, sounds, lighting, video
, special
effects, transport, packaging, communications, costu
me and makeup
• special thanks: movie and contemporary art

4. Elements from traditional dynamic art forms
Stagecraft
According to different identity
According to different attention spaces
According to different position in space and in time
Timing opportunity
Script
Other elements

5. 1:Stagecraft
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Lighting
Design and procurement of costumes
Makeup
Props
Stage management
Recording and mixing of sound

6. Design for Elderly with Dementia:
Light,
Light, Sound
Sound and
Movement

7. Design for Elderly with Dementia:
Design for Elderly with Dementia:
Light,
Sound and
Light, Sound and Movement
Movement

8. inspiration from the lighting and sound
therapeutic methods for dementia as well as
social and cultural activities of healthy elderly
This project started with looking into the concept of meaningful activities for
dementia and its connection to the feeling of happiness.

9. for example:
is a process practiced to evoke personal memory and experience of the past
music stimuli may have positive effects on mood and cognitive functioning
Bright sunlight is an effective anti-depressive. A prolonged exposure to daytime
lighting improves the stability of rest-activity rhythm in the elderly with dementia.

10. Playing piano requires fine motor
skills that improve the circulation to
the brain, and the “brainwork”
reduces the risks of dementia.

11. Daily music-based dance session
helps patients with dementia.

14. In general, the prototype did bring come joy and happiness to the dementia elderly as
expected.
The elderly loved to keep trying and interacting with different behaviors of the installation.
They loved to see the glowing and flowing light effects and to hear the curious water drop
sounds after they had touched the lights.
The experts comments it as “ pleasant; the elderly love it; they are not bored anymore in
the corridor; this provides with minutes of escape”.

15. Elements from traditional dynamic art forms
Stagecraft
According to different identity
According to different attention spaces
According to different position in space and in time
Timing opportunity
Script
Other elements

16. 2:According to different identity
• Operator
• Performer
• Spectator

17. One project
• from workshop:“Interactive Patina of Culture”
• name: “from be alone to belong”

21. Elements from traditional dynamic art forms
Stagecraft
According to different identity
According to different attention spaces
According to different position in space and in time
Timing opportunity
Script
Other elements

22. 3:According to different attention spaces
• Foreground interaction
• Mid-ground interaction
• Background interaction
from unfocused to focused

25. Getting the attention of the public is usually a challenging
task especially when the installation is surrounded by
crowded and busy elements in an open space, such as
buildings, lights, plants and busy people. Dividing the space
of the interactive public art installation into
foreground, mid-ground and background could help get
attention from people in noisy and distracting surroundings.

32. Elements from traditional dynamic art forms
Stagecraft
According to different identity
According to different attention spaces
According to different position in space and in time
Timing opportunity
Script
Other elements

33. 4:According to different position in space and in time
• Front stage behavior
• Back stage behavior

39. open the story on the back stage to audiences

41. Elements from traditional dynamic art forms
Stagecraft
According to different identity
According to different attention spaces
According to different position in space and in time
Timing opportunity
Script
Other elements

42. 5:Timing opportunity

43. Design for Elderly with Dementia:
Light,
at the right time
Sound and
Movement

48. Design for Elderly with Dementia:
Light,
extending the time
Sound and
Movement

49. time for expectation with Dementia:
Design for Elderly
time ight,
L for interactive process
time ound and after(during) interaction
Sfor traces
Movement

52. Elements from traditional dynamic art forms
Stagecraft
According to different identity
According to different attention spaces
According to different position in space and in time
Timing opportunity
Script
Other elements

53. 6:Script

55. Script
• Motif(theme and plot)-------story
• Deductive(expression)-------approaches

56. Design for Elderly with Dementia:
Theme:
Light,
What the work says about the subject
WhatSound and the work about
the readers think
Movement

57. Design for Elderly with Dementia:
Light, Plot
Story and
Sound and
Movement

58. Design for Elderly with Dementia:
Deductive(expression)
Light, version
re-imaged
Sound and
Movement

60. • http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMzUwMjY2N
zky.html

61. Thanks