‘Through a Design Lens: Exploring Eight Key Challenges of Ageing’
Better design of products, services and systems has the potential to improve life for ageing populations. But barriers to innovation exist in reaching older age groups and myths can obstruct the readiness of professional designers to respond to demographic change. This illustrated lecture sets out some of the key design challenges of ageing, using projects from the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design at the Royal College of Art to present a roadmap to design ‘for our future selves’.
Date:
3 February 2016, 13:00 (Wednesday, 3rd week, Hilary 2016)
Venue:
66 Banbury Road (Wolsey Hall), 66 Banbury Road OX2 6PR
Venue Details:
Seminar Room - Oxford Institute of Population Ageing
Speaker:
Professor Jeremy Myerson (Helen Hamlyn Chair of Design, Royal College of Art)
Organising department:
Oxford Institute of Ageing
Organiser:
Emilie Walton (Institute Administrator, Oxford Institute of Population Ageing, University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address:
emilie.walton@ageing.ox.ac.uk
Host:
Professor Sarah Harper (Oxford Institute of Population Ageing, University of Oxford)
Topics:
Booking required?:
Not required
Audience:
Public
Editor:
Emilie Walton
