Cumulus Working Paper (Publisher)

Description

Global demographics will change dramatically in the coming decades. The global 60+ group will

reach one billion in number by 2020.In other words: In less than two decades one in six people

globally will be above the age of sixty. Acknowledging the significance of aging society and the

related challenges to world wide welfare, Aarhus School of Architecture (AAA), Engineering

College of Aarhus (IHA), and Designit A/S set out to investigate the lives of elderly people to

provide a new understanding of old age as inspiration for new designs solutions.

In this paper we will describe, discuss and evaluate the workshop"User-driven Innovation in

praxis - from observation to prototyping in 5 days". In the workshop the participants has been

taken though the process of generating ideas, concepts and prototypes for elderly people.