Ageless Citizen
Making History
The Ageless Citizen Area explores through an ageless lens, to challenge existing biases in digital technologies and systems and reframe opportunities for non-stereotypical understandings of age, learning and ability.
Areas we’re interested in exploring:
- Shared spaces and supporting generations to work together
- Age and ageing
- Life transitions and progression
- Providing support across the lifespan
Projects
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Centring
Co-creative ceramics practice alongside people living with brain changes
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Self-Organised Learning Environments for Young Refugees and Asylum Seekers
This project aims to explore Self-Organised Learning Environments (SOLEs)* as a safe learning environment at university to mitigate the impacts of young refugees and asylum seekers’ (YRAS) difficulty accessing formal education and in the early stages of joining formal education.
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Digital Approaches for Gathering Student Opinions in School
This project explores digital technology to ascertain student opinion on outside spaces in schools.
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Tabletop role-playing for inclusive design: Imagining sustainable futures for ‘older adults’
This Tabletop Role-Playing Game (TTRPG) asked people to look beyond the homogeneous view of older adults.
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Social Robot Designs as a Response to Community Issues
This study explores adolescents' design of social robots as response to issues they see in their local communities.
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Traveling Arts x HCI Sketchbook: Exploring the Intersection Between Artistic Expression and Human-Computer Interaction
This project takes a closer look at arts in HCI. It shows that practices go beyond prominent realms such as sketching for UX Design and design probes from participants and involve a variety of arts-based expressions by researchers, the researched and third parties, e.g. graphic facilitators.
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‘Discover the Treasures of Lit & Phil’: Using Arts Engagement and Digital Technologies in an Independent Library
The project explores arts engagement and digital technology to foster sharing of stories, feedback and comments in an independent library. It also explores how this can increase engagement with the historical information and other offers by such a library.
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Mariana's Song
Mariana's Song is a one-to-one multi-sensory experience for older people living in care homes with advanced dementia. Facilitated by theatre, material design, and magical interaction to support Creative Ageing practice.
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Dovetails: building relationships through woodworking
Dovetails brought together two community groups: Beamish Museum’s Men’s Group and Kids Kabin Cowgate.
