Fit for ageing
Fit for ageing: applying design to the production of age-friendly places (October 2016)
The Fit for ageing workshop and dissemination event was devised to share DWELL research with project stakeholders and participants alongside academics and practitioners involved in developing age-friendly places. The event was co-organised with the Housing LIN and held at the Millennium Galleries in Sheffield.
The workshop provided an opportunity for a range of professionals and older residents to explore how creative design-led thinking can be applied to age-friendly places – with the aim of developing new visions for our towns and cities and joining up diverse resources at time of shrinking budgets.
Working together in groups, workshop delegates tackled a series of real-world scenarios drawn from DWELL research findings. These scenarios included the impact of cuts to local services (library, buses, WCs) on the older population, competition for housing sites from student developers, and the politics of neighbourhood planning.
Details of the workshop outcomes can be downloaded via the link below, or scroll down to view presentations from the event.
Fit for Ageing workshop summary report (PDF, 3.4MB)
DWELL research presentations
This series of short research presentations were recorded at the event.
These keynote and DWELL presentations showcase a small sample of the research undertaken by DWELL from our work with local residents, the local authority and housing developers.
For further details and downloads of our written and design-based outputs, visit our research page.
Presentations
Welcome and introduction – Professor Sarah Wigglesworth
Keynote presentation – Jeremy Porteus, Housing LIN
Co-design methods and Designing with downsizers report launch – Dr Adam Park
Attitudes and values in older people’s housing development – Dr Friederike Ziegler
Housing an ageing population in the era of austerity - Professor Malcolm Tait
Photography and editing: Will Armson