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Patchworked Care: Dialogues on Motherhoods, Recovery and Care Proceedings
12th November @ 9:30 am - 3:00 pm
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Join the Design Feminisms Research Group, an inclusive feminist research group at Northumbria University’s School of Design, for a day of interactive activities to discuss journeys of motherhoods, recovery, and care proceedings.
Patchworked Care is a research project that explores how interactive textiles can help facilitate difficult conversations about the experiences women have at intersections of being in addiction/recovery and involved in care proceedings. This event will make use of research outcomes from two phases of work: creative workshops with women who are in recovery with experience of care proceedings, and staff who support them. The event is made up of three interactive activities, in which we invite attendees to interact with our creative research materials and to reflect on people’s experiences.
Activity 1: exploring women’s lived experience
Activity 2: crafting dialogues with professionals and carers
Activity 3: opportunities for supported accommodation
The event is FREE to attend but ticketed to manage attendee numbers. Refreshments and lunch will be provided on the day. Please feel free to share this invite with others, including women who may benefit from attending the event.
This event is part of Being Human Festival, the UK’s national festival of the humanities, taking place 6 – 15 November 2025. Led by the School of Advanced Study, University of London, with generous support from Research England, in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the British Academy. For further information, please see beinghumanfestival.org.
