Abstract
As the global population ages, countries face challenges in creating supportive age-friendly community environments. Building a future that satisfies everyone has been a challenge in design. This study explores a sustainable transition pathway using a six-phase approach to Transition Design to co-create a vision for the future in collaboration with stakeholders, using age-friendly community centres in Kolding, Denmark, as a case study. This paper focuses on the fourth phase, transition vision, in which a vision blueprint for the future community centre is drawn up with stakeholders to conceptual ise a liveable and accessible environment, based on which three design principles are distilled. This study demonstrates the potential of Transition Design for application to community transitions. The results show that through co-creation with stakeholders, Transition Design can shape a diverse and sustainable vision of the future, enhance the action ability and acceptance of design interventions, and advance the inclusive transition of ageing communities.
Keywords
Transition design; Future visions; Sustainable transitions; Age-friendly community centres; Co-creation
DOI
https://doi.org/10.21606/iasdr.2025.336
Citation
Chen, L.(2025) Transition design: a co-vision for sustainable transitions in age-friendly community centres in Denmark, in Chang, C.-Y., and Hsu, Y. (eds.), IASDR 2025: Design Next, 02-05 December, Taiwan. https://doi.org/10.21606/iasdr.2025.336
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Conference Track
Track 6 - Co-creation
Transition design: a co-vision for sustainable transitions in age-friendly community centres in Denmark
As the global population ages, countries face challenges in creating supportive age-friendly community environments. Building a future that satisfies everyone has been a challenge in design. This study explores a sustainable transition pathway using a six-phase approach to Transition Design to co-create a vision for the future in collaboration with stakeholders, using age-friendly community centres in Kolding, Denmark, as a case study. This paper focuses on the fourth phase, transition vision, in which a vision blueprint for the future community centre is drawn up with stakeholders to conceptual ise a liveable and accessible environment, based on which three design principles are distilled. This study demonstrates the potential of Transition Design for application to community transitions. The results show that through co-creation with stakeholders, Transition Design can shape a diverse and sustainable vision of the future, enhance the action ability and acceptance of design interventions, and advance the inclusive transition of ageing communities.