Abstract
Assisting our communities with design for longevity through creating opportunities to age in place requires multiple resources. Aging and longevity are essential emerging factors for many urban neighborhoods. In partnership with the Drexel University Writers Room and Second Story Collective, the Drexel Design Research for Health Lab is creating an innovative concept space and tool for inter-generational creativity through storytelling and artmaking. The interdisciplinary members of the project are developing a series of evidence-based urban spaces around Aging-in-Place. The group has received funding to conduct an age-friendly observational study of the central location for community writing activities. The current goal of this project is to develop a model for implementing age-friendly retrofits. This paper will describe the participatory work to date and the formulation of an initial measure as a part of the changing ways we see our creative community spaces.
Keywords
design for longevity; aging in place
DOI
https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2024.1249
Citation
Susan Nicholas, D., Singh, T., Deshpande, T., Prabhakar, A., Wenrick, R., and Allen-Handy, A. (2024) Intergenerational creative spaces, co-living, community: Design for longevity, in Gray, C., Hekkert, P., Forlano, L., Ciuccarelli, P. (eds.), DRS2024: Boston, 23–28 June, Boston, USA. https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2024.1249
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Intergenerational creative spaces, co-living, community: Design for longevity
Assisting our communities with design for longevity through creating opportunities to age in place requires multiple resources. Aging and longevity are essential emerging factors for many urban neighborhoods. In partnership with the Drexel University Writers Room and Second Story Collective, the Drexel Design Research for Health Lab is creating an innovative concept space and tool for inter-generational creativity through storytelling and artmaking. The interdisciplinary members of the project are developing a series of evidence-based urban spaces around Aging-in-Place. The group has received funding to conduct an age-friendly observational study of the central location for community writing activities. The current goal of this project is to develop a model for implementing age-friendly retrofits. This paper will describe the participatory work to date and the formulation of an initial measure as a part of the changing ways we see our creative community spaces.