Feeling at Home

Feeling at Home

Tuesday 4 April - Saturday 6 May 2023

Exploring the way in which the material environment and the patterning of everyday life and social relationships within residences for people with learning disabilities come together to foster a positive sense of belonging, and an emotional attachment of feeling ‘at home’.

Exhibition: Feeling at Home: Photos by people with learning disabilities sharing their experiences of living in group homes.

Where? The Living Room, Science Gallery London, Ground Floor

When? Tuesday 4 April - Saturday 6 May 2023

What makes somewhere feel like ‘home’? This exhibition shows work from 19 photographers with learning disabilities from across Brighton and London. They have been meeting together in small groups to reflect on what helps them feel at home, and what gets in the way of this. Feeling at Home invites you to see the world through the eyes of people with learning disabilities, and to reflect on your own responses to this work.

The photographers have curated this exhibition of their work working with community arts organisation Quiet Down There.

This Living Room takeover is part of the Feeling at Home research study, funded by the National Institute of Health and Care Research’s School for Social Care Research. We have used photovoice, a research method where people tell their stories, share their experiences and work towards improving their lives through photography.

The research team is made up of: Dr Deborah Chinn, Mr Shalim Ali, Dr Tony Levitan, Dr Andrew Power, Dr Katy Brickley. It is funded by the National Institute of Health and Care Research’s School for Social Care Research.

The team include researchers based at the Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care at King’s College London, University of Southampton and Sussex NHS Foundation Trust.