DRIVE 2016 | 27 October - RTD: Resourceful ageing
Transcript of DRIVE 2016 | 27 October - RTD: Resourceful ageing
Resourceful AgeingDesigning innovations that empower elderly to
live resourcefully
BY ELISA GIACCARDI (TU Delft) | DRIVE Festival, October 26, 2016
• Started in June 2016
• An interdisciplinary team of designers, social scientists and
computer scientists
• A multi-stakeholder collaboration between university, applied
sciences, industry and consulting
• 520,000 euros total budget (with 3 full time postdocs)
Prof. Dr. Elisa GiaccardiIndustrial Design, Project Lead
Iohanna NicenboimDesign Post-Doc
Dr. Hayley HungComputer Science, Co-PI
Dr. Louis NevenActive Ageing, Co-PI
Yanxia ZhangMachine Learning Post-doc
Dr. Lenneke KuijerDesign ethnography, Co-PI
Jeroen RaijmakersDesign Coordinator
Benjamin LopezDesign Lead / Service designer
Ivo MaathuisSocial Sciences Post-doc
Wanda KruijtFoundation for Market Innovation in the Netherlands
Marcel SchouwenaarFounder and partner
Gain insights by asking a community of both things and people, and taking a holisticperspective on their daily lives within a complex web of use practices .
Not only people… but also thingsare participants
Image: Oldies but Goldies (Vittoria Casanova)
To make sense of data, we combine ethnography and machine learning in a participatory feedback loop.
Resourcefulness is the everyday practice of adjusting means to purpose.
Things at hand are used in an unconventional way to ‘make do’.
Much as to do with routinized or improvised arrangements that keep things in and around the house accessible and organized to fit one’s unique skills and needs.
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Resourcefulness in the Third Age
To find out about these arrangements – and the norms and skills that may facilitate them –we will enable families of everyday objects to communicate to each other.
Then we’ll ask them to tell us more about their arrangements.
Use casesLeaving home for work
A customizable system that helps elderly keep things together and never misplace them or forget them again.
It also helps us (the researchers) understand how this is done, and how it can be both generalized and improvised.
• Design knowledge on how to support Resourceful Ageing.
• A living-lab infrastructure for exploring and experimenting within a
continuous feedback loop between research hypotheses and design practice.
• New generation of products and services that ‘hack’ familiar everyday
objects within the home and originally integrate new functionalities into
these objects.
• We want to empower elderly people to live longer and more
resilient lives.
• We want to research how to design products and services for and
with elderly people that can adapt and be improvised with while in
use, as part of dispersed practices of resourcefulness.
• Giaccardi, E., Kuijer, L., Neven, L. (2016) Design for Resourceful Ageing: Intervening in the Ethics of Gerontechnology. In Proceedings of DRS 2016 Design Research Society 50th Anniversary Conference. June 27 – 30, Brighton, UK.
To find out about what may escape our
sense of relevance,we ask things!
Image: Oldies but Goldies (Vittoria Casanova)