This workshop series is for university-level students. Attendees may book onto single or multiple dates.

What is it about?

These morning sessions offer you the opportunity to investigate lifelong wellbeing in-depth in a museum setting. The sessions will be about exploring different museum collections and environments through handling, viewing and responding, with focus on your own creative interpretation and thoughts and feelings that arise in response to ideas around what lifelong wellbeing means to you. There will be a broad range of art materials provided to have a creative opportunity to respond to the space, museum collections and working together, facilitated by an experienced Art Psychotherapist.

The sessions are part of the Festival of Social Sciences 2023, taking place between Saturday 21 October and Friday 17 November. This year, the festival will focus on lifelong wellbeing, exploring mental and physical health at all ages and celebrating the 75th anniversary of the NHS. Click here for more information on the festival and the programme

Locations and schedule

Wednesday 8 November, 2023: Object Based Learning Lab (OBLL), 09.30 - 12.30
Thursday 9 November, 2023: Object Based Learning Lab (OBLL), 09.30 - 12.30

Please Note: the OBLL houses a teaching collection including scientific instruments, as well as animal and human remains. If you have any questions, please direct these to George via g.paris@ucl.ac.uk

Access

The venue has step-free access.
Step-free toilets, and both gendered/gender neutral toilets are located within a few minutes of each venue.
A Changing Places toilet facility is within 5 minutes' distance of each venue
Staff will be on hand to give directions.

Finding us

The venue is located on the ground floor of the UCL Wilkins building, located in Bloomsbury, in the heart of central London. The nearest tube stations are Euston Square (Metropolitan, Circle, Hammersmith & City), Goodge Street (Northern Line), Warren Street (Victoria Line), and buses 18, 30, 73, 134 and 205 stop 3-5 minutes away on Euston Road.

Google map pins are unfortunately slightly incorrect but for both venues you can head here via Gower Street and then use the below maps to navigate within the campus grounds.

Registrations are closed

Creating Lifelong Wellbeing and Expression in Museum Environments