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Wanted: Challenging Design Ideas for Ageing
Author(s) -
Wilkinson Katherine
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.1738
Subject(s) - ageing society , engineering ethics , focus (optics) , management , engineering management , sociology , engineering , gerontology , medicine , economics , physics , optics
In 2012‐13, the Design Research Institute (DRI) at the RMIT University in Melbourne hosted a Design Challenge on ageing. For the institute, which is based around trans‐disciplinary design research, the challenge provides a unique opportunity to introduce a rigorous framework and focus to its activities. Katherine Wilkinson , the Senior Manager of the DRI and initiator of the annual Design Challenge, describes how students, designers and experts from industry, business and the community were brought together by the issue of ageing to generate innovative ideas and solutions.