Programme of events

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Thursday, 19 April, 2012
Friday, 20 April, 2012
Saturday, 21 April, 2012

Thursday, 19 April, 2012

TimeActivity
9:15–10am Registration
[MAIN RECEPTION]
Workshop & Paper sign-up
Coffee/Gallery exhibition
10–10:15am Welcome
[LECTURE THEATRE]
10:15–11:05amKeynote
‘Neil Harbisson – Living with sound and colour.'
Neil Harbisson (Spain)
[LECTURE THEATRE]
11:15am–12:55pmPaper presentations and Workshops
SESSION 1A:
[MR 34]
Living with or without colour
11:15amJane Mills (UK)
Exploring how to communicate the experience – a personal perspective.
11:50amDavid Feeney (UK)
Engaging Individuals with Visual Impairment in Descriptions of Colour.
12:25amJenna Ashton(UK)
Colour/"Chroma".
SESSION 1B:
[MR 36]
Design & Therapy
11:15amTheo Stickley & Brian Crosbie (UK)
Colour Theory and Wayfinding in an A&E department.
11:50amEfterpi Soropos (Australia)
Immersive sensory artwork (Sound, Film and Colour Lighting Installations) for psychological relief of suffering and stress.
12:25amJenny Tillotson (UK)
Smell The Colour Of The Rainbow.
11:15am WORKSHOP:
Mark Wentworth (Portugal)
Colour Stories.
[MR 1]
(90 minutes)
1-1:50pmLunch/Gallery exhibition
[MAIDWELL THEATRE/FOYER]

Posters (with presenters) from 1:15pm
[BOARDROOM]
1:50-2:35pmKeynote
‘The role of colour and imagery within modern medical intervention.’
Dr Helen Carruthers (UK)
[LECTURE THEATRE]
2:40-3:50pm WORKSHOPS
1. Neil Harbisson (Spain)
Sound Portraits.
[MAIDWELL THEATRE]
2. Donna Savery (UK)
The Use of Colour in Building a Therapeutic Relationship
[MR1]
3. Pauline Allen (UK)
Activating The Senses - The use of coloured light to help learning and sensory difficulties.
[MR8]
3:50-4:10pmCoffee break/gallery exhibition
4:15–5:50pmPaper presentations
SESSION 2A:
[MR 34]
Therapy
4:15pmMalcolm Learmonth (UK)
The Silent Rage of Strawberries: Colour and Meaning.
4:50pmEmily Lebowitz & Chandra Reber(USA)
The union of the expressive arts and Dialectical Behaviour Therapy with adolescents presenting with traits of Borderline Personality Disorder in a residential setting.
5:20pmKaren Huckvale (UK)
Colour Mixing and Ambivalence.
SESSION 2B:
[MR 36]
Design
4:15pmRose Matthewson (UK)
Dementia Design in the Acute Hospital Setting.
4:50pmJohn Wood & Ellen Sharpe(UK)
Inter-professional Research and Design project for a Hospice Out-Patient reception area.
6-7:15pmFree time and networking
7:15pmMeet at Main Reception and depart for dinner, 7 minutes walk; please contact an ambassador if you require assistance.
7:30pmConference Dinner
Jade Pavilion Restaurant
[RACECOURSE PAVILION, KETTERING ROAD, NN1 4LG]

Conference club @ Jade follows with drinks available at bar prices.
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Friday, 20 April, 2012

TimeActivity
9–9:20amRegistration
[MAIN RECEPTION]
For Day delegates/Workshop & Paper sign-up
9:20amWelcome to day two
[LECTURE THEATRE]
9:30–10:20amKeynote
‘The Lüscher Colour Test: A coloured X-ray image of the psyche.’
Dr Andreas Edelmann (Switzerland)
[LECTURE THEATRE]
10:20–10:30amJournal issue launch special guest edited issue by Professor Shaun McNiff of the Journal of Applied Arts & Health
[LECTURE THEATRE]
10:30–10:50amCoffee break/
gallery exhibition
11am–12:35pmPaper Presentations and Workshops
SESSION 3A:
[MR 34]
Therapy
11amLynn Aulich (UK)
Colour me Sad.
11.35amNathalie de Wouters d’Oplinter (Belgium)
Workshops of art-therapy: supports with reconciling potential of medical treatment and aesthetic sense.
12:10pmNele Dael & Christine Mohr (Switzerland)
Disentangling the red-effects. The importance of emotional arousal and potency in the processing of red.
SESSION 3B:
[MR 36]
Design & Therapy
11amSue Wood (UK)
Enhancing the Healing Environment for People with Dementia in the Acute Hospital.
11:35amDonna Savery (UK)
The Red Trigger: An approach to working creatively as an Existential Psychotherapist to promote relationship change to a traumatic event, in clients with mental health issues.
12:10pmLinda Thomson (UK)
Healing Heritage: Can handling museum objects make you feel better.
11am WORKSHOP:
(90 minutes)
1. Linda E. Wheildon (UK)
An absence of colour: Not Just the black and white of it.
[MR 1]
2. Vanessa Volpe (UK)
Colour for Well-being
[MR 7]
12.40-1:30pmLunch/Gallery exhibition
[MAIDWELL THEATRE/FOYER]

Posters (with presenters) from 1pm
[BOARDROOM]
1:35-3:05pm WORKSHOPS
1. Andreas Edelmann (Switzerland)
The performance of the Luscher Colour Test and the clinical application of the test results.
[MAIDWELL THEATRE]
2. Karen Huckvale & Malcolm Learmonth (UK)
Weaving and are un-weaving of the rainbow: an exploration of colours’ resonance, objectivity, subjectivity and context
[MR1]
3. Birgit Rathje-Vale (UK)
Assessment and treatment of abnormal colour vision in individuals following neurological damage.
[MR7]
4. Karl Ryberg (Sweden)
Colour for health and education.
[MR8]
3:05-3:25pmCoffee break/gallery exhibition
3:25–4:25pmResearch and development workshop/Special interest groups
Sessions to be advised: see noticeboard.
4:30-4:45pmClosing remarks
[LECTURE THEATRE]
6pmDrinks Reception
Lime Trees Hotel
[8 LANGHAM PLACE, BARRACK ROAD, NN2 6AA]
7pmOptional dinner at Lime Trees for Saturday Workshop Class delegates & those wishing to stay the night (additional payment).
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Saturday, 21 April, 2012

TimeActivity
10-10:15amRegistration/coffee
[MAIN RECEPTION]
10:15am-4pmWorkshop class*
Colour for Life: The Art of Living in Colour
Mark Wentworth (Portugal)
Includes light lunch and bottled water throughout the day.

* Workshop Class is in addition to the conference at a cost of £85 (includes dinner the evening before and lunch and refreshments on the day).

All prices are VAT exempt.

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