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Title: | The ‘right’ place to age? Exploring age-friendly and diversity-sensitive design in a super-diverse neighbourhood | Authors: | PHLIX, Micheline STEVENS, Ruth VANRIE, Jan Smetcoren, An-Sofie PETERMANS, Ann |
Issue Date: | 2024 | Publisher: | ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD | Source: | Design Journal, | Status: | Early view | Abstract: | The neighbourhood is a significant place for older adults in later life, especially given their strong wish to age in place, pointing to the importance of age-friendly design that accommodates older adults’ changing needs. Moreover, the older population is diversifying, highlighting the additional need for diversity-sensitive design, accommodating older adults’ diverse needs. Considering the importance of public places to age-friendly and diversity-sensitive design, this paper explores design that promotes community connection in an age-friendly and diversity-sensitive manner. To do so, a research-by-design study with master students in (interior) architecture was set up in a super-diverse Belgian neighbourhood. After a pre-design phase that immersed students in the neighbourhood and its inhabitants’ experiences, the students engaged in a design phase. Here, they re-designed various public places in an age-friendly and diversity-sensitive manner. The design output illustrates how various functions and intensities answer the changing and diverse needs of a super-diverse population. | Notes: | Phlix, M (corresponding author), UHasselt Hasselt Univ, Fac Architecture & Arts, Diepenbeek, Belgium. micheline.phlix@uhasselt.be |
Keywords: | Age-friendly design;diversity-sensitive design;community connection;research-by-design;architecture | Document URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1942/42891 | ISSN: | 1460-6925 | e-ISSN: | 1756-3062 | DOI: | 10.1080/14606925.2024.2339665 | ISI #: | WOS:001201181800001 | Category: | A1 | Type: | Journal Contribution |
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