On the table; People´s stories put into objects.

Report from a collaborative research project.

Abstract

The project explores the use of printed electronics to integrate personal stories and memories into everyday objects, with the aim of fostering storytelling and communication among older adults in Norrköping and beyond. The project is a collaboration between Linköping University, RISE, and the Municipality of Norrköping, and focuses on how technology can be used in everyday environments, elderly care settings, and public spaces to make older people's narratives accessible and to promote well-being through focusing on cultural quality of life where content is derived from and decided by older persons in collaboration with the researchers, producers, artists and students in the project group. Stories are made accessible by the printed electronics technology developed at Linköping University and RISE and is conceptualized and researched by the LiU research group on social and cultural studies of media use and production, as well as with researchers on ageing and social change.