Living Well as You Age: My Life on a Plate

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Written by purpleSTARS

Summary

How purpleSTARS members developed and created posters and an installation about Living Well as You Age.

purpleSTARS logo with image of a graphic with a head and heartbeat pattern


purpleSTARS contributed to Living Well as You Get Older  a knowledge exchange event held at the University of Greenwich.

purpleSTARS members and co-researchers at RIX chose a health subject they were interested in and created posters. We explored pattern making based on listening to our hearts and created health hero self portraits using online modelling tool Hero Forge.

View of two women holding paint brushes working at a table with ipad during a creative session to develop a poster for living well as you age
View of two women one holding a paint brush during a creative session to develop a poster for living well as you age.
View of three women one holding a paint brush working at a table two are high fiving during a creative session to develop a poster for living well as you age
View of two women and one man listening to heart beat and setting a metronome to match the rhythm to create paintings, during a creative session to develop a poster for living well as you age.
View of holding a painting she painted during a creative session to develop a poster for living well as you age.
View of holding a heart beat painting created during a creative session to develop a poster for living well as you age. The pattern was later added as a pattern on a dress for the poster.

Ajay, Baljit, Kiran and Ros designed the posters below highlighting their advice and experience of stay well as we age.

Posters of digital figures with heath advice on how to live well as you age.

This event was a collaborative effort organised by the Institute for Lifecourse Development (ILD), University of Greenwich, the British Society of Gerontology, purpleSTARS, and the Rix Inclusive Research Institute at the University of East London (UEL).

Poster with diverse hands showing portion sizes for healthy eating
Four people sitting one with a microphone talking

Read more about the event on the 15th May here

The learning from the network event was channelled into an interactive sensory installation event at the Heritage Gallery University of Greenwich on Friday 26th July. The video below shares our interactive installation My Life on a Plate.

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