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Dying Matters Awareness Week May 2023
Michael Tan leads two performance events exploring talking about grief and death as part of Dying Matters Awareness Week activities.

What’s on in the White Building: March 2023
This month the White Building hosts Postgraduate Open Day activities, workshops and seminars with Nursing and Social Care students, community groups, a pop-up exhibition by Art and Design students, and Lab4Living Cinema Club.

‘Gestures of Care’ heading to International Health Humanities Consortium Conference 2023, Cleveland, Ohio
Michael Tan and Noemie Soula present Gestures of Care creative movement workshop exploring the nuances in nonverbal aspects of caring at Cleveland, Ohio conference.

Care and Kindness workshop with SHU Mental Health Nursing Students
Lab4Living staff have led a ‘Care and Kindness’ workshop of creative activities for Sheffield Hallam Mental Health Nursing Students to use during their Community Placements.

Dying Matter at Dying.Dialogues 2023 Symposium
Michael Tan presents Dying Matter virtual performance exploring attitudes to death at Dying.Dialogues 2023 in Toronto.

What’s on in the White Building: November 2022
This month, the White Building windows give a glimpse of past and present projects through prototypes and artefacts on display.

Beyond 100 exhibition opens at Hong Kong Design Institute
Beyond 100: Transforming design & imagining futures with Lab4Living explores how design can respond to our evolving needs as we age.

Sheffield Hallam University opens major design exhibition in Hong Kong
Sheffield Hallam University’s design-led research group Lab4Living is collaborating with the Hong Kong Design Institute (HKDI) to open a major exhibition exploring how design can imagine an equitable future and respond to evolving needs as populations age
Read more at Sheffield Hallam University News…
The exhibition project: Beyond 100

What’s on in the White Building: October 2022
This month, Lab4Living hosts ‘Menopause And The Body’ to mark World Menopause Day, plus ‘The Poetics of Ageing’ Poetry Reading, part of Off the Shelf: Festival of Words.