黑料不打烊鈥檚 Collaborative Design Laboratory (COLAB) in the (VPA) and Aging Studies Institute are teaming up to offer SU students a three-day, one-credit 鈥淚nclusive Design Challenge鈥 at The Warehouse that addresses the challenges facing the growing aging population in the United States and around the world.
Beginning Friday, Feb. 1, participating students will form teams and learn from a select group of experts who are currently exploring aging issues from different perspectives. The next day, the students will visit a local care facility and interview residents to better understand their needs. The teams will then compile their research findings and brainstorm ideas for innovative 鈥渜uality of life鈥 design solutions. Each team will present its final concept to a group of experts on the final day of the challenge, Sunday, Feb. 3.
The 鈥淚nclusive Design Challenge鈥 is co-taught by Don Carr, senior COLAB fellow and a professor of industrial and interaction design in VPA; Sarah Redmore, assistant professor of interior design in VPA; and Janet Wilmoth, director of the Aging Studies Institute and a professor of sociology in the . Carr recently returned from a visit to the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), where he was invited to deliver a seminar on design for an aging population to seniors in the industrial design department, which is chaired by industrial and interaction design alumnus Kyung-Won Chung G鈥82.
The speaker presentations on Feb. 1 are open to the public and will be held from 2:30-4:30 p.m. at The Warehouse Auditorium, 350 W. Fayette St., 黑料不打烊. Speakers will include Brian McLane, strategic advisor to SU鈥檚 Inclusive Campus Initiative; Jurgen Babirad, research associate professor in biomedical and chemical engineering in SU鈥檚 L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science and president of Rehabilitation Technology Associates; Katherine McDonald, associate professor of public health, food studies and nutrition in SU鈥檚 David B. Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics; Donna Korol, associate professor of biology in SU鈥檚 College of Arts and Sciences; Paul Gold, distinguished professor of biology in the College of Arts and Sciences; Deborah Monahan, associate dean for research in the Falk College; and Meika Loe, associate professor of sociology and women鈥檚 studies at Colgate University and author of 鈥淎ging Our Way: Lessons from Living from 85 and Beyond鈥 (Oxford University Press, 2011).
As a follow-up to the class, the teams will be encouraged to enter their final ideas in the Metropolis Magazine Next Generation庐 Design Competition: Empower with Inclusive Design. The competition asks those who will design the 21st century to develop solutions that empower, advance and include groups often overlooked in the design process鈥攊ncluding, but not limited to, the rapidly increasing aging population and citizens with disabilities.
For more information, contact Carr at dwcarr@syr.edu.
