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Mapping Perceptions: The MoMA Alzheimer's Project Summit

Mapping Perceptions: The MoMA Alzheimer's Project Summit took place on Tuesday, March 22, 2011. Thanks to the generosity of MetLife Foundation, the summit was free of charge. On that day participants—including art and museum educators, artists, art therapists, policy makers, care partners, and professionals from care organizations—gathered to share information and generate conversation about our understanding of changing cognitive function, means and goals of learning, and forms and functions of the arts. Together we considered these ideas and their intersections in depth in an effort to create opportunities for meaningful engagement for individuals affected by dementia.

Mapping Perceptions Program | Download PDF

Presentations

• Morning Sessions


• Closing Remarks

Afternoon Session Notes

• You Are Here: Engagement with Art | Download PDF
• Zoom Out: Programs and Perspectives | Download PDF
• The Grand Scale: New Frontiers | Download PDF

Reflectionnaire

• Selected Responses | Download PDF
• Compiled Participant Response | Download PDF

Imagination and the Changing Mind

Imagination and the Changing Mind, a separate program open to the general public, took place at The Museum of Modern Art on Monday, March 21, 2011, from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. in The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 1.

Imagination and the Changing Mind Program | Download PDF

In this panel discussion Dr. Eric Kandel, Nobel Prize–winning medical researcher; Paola Antonelli, senior curator in the Department of Architecture and Design at The Museum of Modern Art; David Shenk, author of The Forgetting and The Genius in All of Us; and Dr. Anne Basting, director of the Center on Age & Community at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, considered how innate differences or changes that develop later in life can beget creative engagement and meaningful contribution to society. Amir Parsa, author and director of The MoMA Alzheimer's Project, moderated the discussion.

Panel Discussion Video