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Bart De Nil
Bart De Nil is a practitioner and PhD researcher between University College London Arts & Sciences and Information Studies, investigating public libraries as social infrastructure for creative health. For the past two decades he has been leading developments in culturally mediated wellbeing in Flanders, Belgium and internationally. He will deliver several workshops aimed at improving the professional development of the participants who want to use place-based cultural heritage for wellbeing activities. Bart will also give the participants a group assignment in which they can use everything they've learned during this training week.
Bart Marius
Bart Marius
Bart Marius is Artistic Director of Dr Guislain Museum in Ghent, Belgium. He leads an internationally renowned museum about mental health that is housed in the oldest mental asylum in Belgium, which dates back to 1857, surrounded by a mental health hospital. The fact that the museum is located in a densely populated and hyperdiverse city district that deals with the aftermath of a post-industrial reconversion, systemic inequalities and gentrification, challenged him to explore how he can use the museum grounds as a place of care. The in-between space a museum occupies between care and culture is an enduring source of fascination and inspiration. Bart has worked on numerous exhibitions projects and publications and has curated exhibitions all over the world. During the training week he will unpack with the participtants, during several sessions, how this place-based approach impacts the museums collection policy, the layers of interpretations and cultural heritage practices.
Cheryl McGeachan
Cheryl McGeachan
Cheryl McGeachan is a Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Glasgow. Her research focuses on exploring the lived worlds of mental ill-health. Her work is grounded in uncovering worldly encounters with people, place and objects and collaborates with numerous archives, collections and community partners to develop stories of mental ill-health that are often overlooked and ignored. During the training week she will discuss mad studies methodologies for exploring cultural heritage through hands-on work with the Art Extraordinary collection.
Bruce Davenport
Bruce Davenport
Bruce Davenport is a Lecturer in the School of Arts & Cultures at Newcastle University. His research interests include the impact of cultural engagement in the lives of older people. He is currently focused on aspects of volunteering in heritage organisations from the perspectives of both volunteers and volunteer managers. During the training week Bruce will show the participants how they can connect activities around place making, volunteers and resilience with concrete health and wellbeing outcomes.
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