Creating Space for Community Engagement with End-of-life Issues Through Intergenerational Arts Activities: Findings from Sweden

Max Kleijberg, PhD, is a designer and postdoctoral researcher at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden. Max will present his doctoral research on Studio DöBra, a participatory, community-based project in Sweden involving children (9 y/o) and older adults (most 80+) in arts activities about dying, death, and loss. Developed and studied in collaboration with academic and community partners, the goals of Studio DöBra were to support community engagement with end-of-life issues and create opportunities for intergenerational interaction. In this presentation, Max will share findings related to the ways in which arts activities can support engagement with end-of-life issues as well as the project’s various forms of impact.

Support for these events provided by Dr. Stajduhar and the Canada Research Chairs Program, the UVic Institute on Aging & Lifelong Health and School of Nursing.

You can now watch a recording of the presentation on our YouTube page here.