Architectures of Care: Art, Aging and Health – IMMA Talks

What does it mean to care – for ourselves, for others, and for society – across the lifespan? How can the arts and sciences expand our understanding of aging, health, and wellbeing?

The Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) is hosting a panel discussion on 16 July, bringing together leading voices from medicine, contemporary art, and brain health to share interdisciplinary perspectives on how creativity, culture, and science shape the ways we age and care.

Part of the IMMA Talks series, contributors include:

• Keynote Speaker: Regius Professor Rose Anne Kenny (Trinity College Dublin, MISA St James’s Hospital), researcher, author and leading global expert on ageing and longevity;
• Annie Fletcher, Director of IMMA, whose vision champions the role of culture in civic transformation;
• Brian Kennedy (Global Brain Health Institute), former Director of four prominent international art museums and an advocate for the integration of creative arts programmes and brain health in rethinking how we live and age.

A closing Q&A, chaired by Bairbre-Ann Harkin (Curator, IMMA Horizons), explores how empirical knowledge from science and medicine can be meaningfully integrated with experiential knowledge from art, culture, and lived experience to forge more inclusive, imaginative, and humane models of care.

Booking information
This is a free event but limited seats are available.

Register for the talk at https://imma.ie/whats-on/panel-discussion-architectures-of-care/

This IMMA Talks event was developed in collaboration with IMMA Horizons and MISA through the Creative Life pillar at St James’s Hospital, and reflects a long standing partnership since 2017 that champions the role of the arts in enhancing health, wellbeing and quality of life in clinical settings and throughout the lifespan.

Feature image: IMMA Horizons