How the reflections of patients changed the design of interventions with cultural heritage in Flanders. Bart De Nil | Storytelling for Health | Swansea, 27-30 June 2019

1. How the reflections of patients changed the design
of interventions with cultural heritage in Flanders
Bart De Nil | Storytelling for Health | Swansea, 27-30 June 2019

2. Programme Cultural heritage, health and
wellbeing

3. Community wellbeing

4. Pilots

5.  Museum Plantin Moretus, FARO Herstelacademie SaRA en Iedereen Leest
 Erasmushuis, FARO, Cultureghem
faro.be

6. Organizations that
cooperate:
Museums, Archives, Libraries with special collections, Public
library, Local history associations, Regional heritage bodies,
Psychiatric hospitals, Recovery academy, Day care centres for
people with mental and/or physical disabilities, Community
health center, Local social service centre, Arts centre,
Communty centers, Child care, Social organistions, …
They work with or
about:
Mental vulnerable people, Prisoners, People with mental
disabilities, Vulnerable elderly, People in recovery (fear, grief,
loneliness, loss, etc.), Loneliness, Anxiety and mood
disorders, Depression, Young adults, Mourning, Single
mothers, ….
Methods used: Storytelling, Digital storytelling, Object handling, Slow Art,
Performance, Interaction methods, Transcribing,
Multisensory storytelling, Making, Garden Therapy, Creative
crafts, Reminiscence, …

7. Sustainable cooperation

8. Impact = a long term

9. Asset based

10. Evidence based

11. Patients/clients/participants voices

12. Importance of place

13. Not a whe-them story (mixed
groups)

14. Power of objects (staying closer to the
heritage objects)

15. Thinking by making

16. Out of our comfort zone

17. In the pipeline an article about the re-design of one pilot:
Bart De Nil and Pascal Janssens. Preserved Heritage: Stories and
objects for mental health patients. In: Thomas Kador and Helen
Chatterjee (editors). Material Connections: exploring the role of
objects in learning and wellbeing. London, Routledge, publication
date?

18. End 2019 publication:
Cultural heritage for wellbeing
Inspiring cases that create positive change in wellbeing with heritage collections

20. More information (*in Dutch, Google translate)
Pilots : https://faro.be/blogs/bart-de-nil/piloottrajecten-erfgoedcollecties-
gezondheid-en-welzijn
My blog: https://faro.be/blogs/Bart%20De%20Nil
Twitter mostly in English: @bdnil

21. Bart De Nil, Stafmedewerker archieven, digitale publiekswerking en outreach
bart.denil@faro.be