Cities are byzantine places, from the vast metropolises of London, New York, and Paris, to the \u2018most liveable\u2019 of Melbourne or Vienna. They bring together dense and diverse collections of people, buildings, streets, transport, wealth, poverty, entertainment, work and lifestyles. But two big challenges face our cities: the growing trend to urbanisation and the fact that people are living longer. Both issues will have huge impacts on our cities and cannot be ignored if we are to create sustainable urban environments.<\/p>\n
We have an opportunity to apply multi-disciplinary research to influence the design of the built environment, and encourage mobility and socialisation. From an EPSRC Design for Wellbeing<\/a> call, we’ve been working with researchers and practitioners to synthesise across this research to provide stakeholders with useful material to draw from in their decision-making.<\/p>\n Our workshop shared ageing and mobility research with the policy and practice communities.<\/p>\nWorkshop, April 2017<\/h2>\n
Research presentations: Engagement with stakeholders<\/h3>\n
DWELL \u2013 Designing for wellbeing in environments in later life<\/h3>\n
Sarah Wigglesworth, Sarah Wigglesworth Architects<\/h4>\n