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The collaborative storytelling program TimeSlips uses images to spark creativity among Alzheimer’s patients, encouraging participants to develop narrative collages. The process strengthens bonds among group members while engaging individuals in a responsive way, offering a new model for person-centered treatment. As the project’s website explains:
It is based on shifting the emphasis from memory or factual reminiscence to opening and validating the imagination. The effect is the creation of a “laboratory” of sorts, where people who have difficulty with communication can experiment with sounds, gestures, word fragments, and whole sentences; make meaning; and have fun at the same time.
Most of the stories that emerge from the process are displayed in treatment facilities or given to family members, but some have inspired more public works of art. The creator of TimeSlips, Anne Basting, presented selected stories in a play in 2001 Two exhibits–the first at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, the second a special display in the Empire State Building–explored the program through photographs and “pop-up book” style sculptures.
. Historian Shae Davidson's research interests include public policy and the relationship between culture and civil society. His publications range from articles on industrial history to absurdist poetry.
