NESTORE: co-design for aging well
NESTORE: Older co-researchers developing novel empowering solutions to stay autonomous and healthy as we age
BACKGROUND/HISTORY AND CONTEXT OF THE WORKSHOP
NESTORE is a European research project aiming to deliver novel empowering solutions for older people to stay well as they age. Technological innovations will be harnessed and manifested as a set of user-friendly devices: NESTORE through which personalized advice to promote wellbeing will be delivered.
As a set of smart and user-friendly devices, NESTORE is a friend and a coach understanding our needs, mood and preferences, to propose activities and services matching our personality, environment and health status: the piece of advice when we need it and how we need it.
Recently there has been a proliferation of devices (e.g.) Google Home or Amazon Alexa that have shown the great potential of multifunction tangible objects to provide assistance at home. Yet ensuring these highly technical projects are developed hand-in-hand with populations that are in general quite afar from those technologies can be a challenge.
NESTORE teamed up with skilled experts in co-creation to make sure older persons would be seating on the driver seats of our research and innovation processes.
MAIN AIM / OBJECTIVE
EXPECTED OUTCOMES
The workshop will provide participants with new knowledge and tools to make their co-design, co-creation and co-production practices more inclusive, especially when involving older age groups or groups with little confidence or experience of using digital technology.
Understanding will be gained in relation to a number of methods including object-elicitation, cultural probes and more specifically ‘Exhibition-in-a-box’.
It is anticipated that through engaging in broader discussion that individuals will leave the workshop with a broader understanding of a range of examples of best practice in the context of co-design and co-production within Europe.
The session offers an opportunity for the workshop facilitators to receive feedback and to critically reflect on their methods and to meet new partners for consortium building and future transnational experimentation.
BRIEF OUTLINE / METHODOLOGY
Prof. Chamberlain and Dr. Craig are co-directors of Lab4Living, a design led interdisciplinary research group from the Sheffield Hallam University in the United Kingdom (and member of ENoLL). The Living Lab focuses on research with people to inform the development of products services and interventions that support wellbeing and promote quality of life. They have a strong track record in developing methods of engagement and of co-design.
The workshop will begin with a description of the broader context of co-design in the field of developing digital technologies to promote well-being and of the opportunities and challenges this space presents. A description of design-led methods will be offered.
Mirroring the methodology used in NESTORE, workshop’s participants will be invited to engage in an experiential workshop using a co-design tool ‘Exhibition-in-a-box’. Here nine objects contained in a box ‘à la Duchamp’ are used to stimulate and scaffold thinking.
These objects will form the basis of discussion and exploration in the context of digital technology and the workshop will end with a broader reflection of the process and feedback on the experience of taking part.
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Worshop Facilitators
Estelle Huchet
Campaign Officer
Estelle Huchet
Campaign OfficerEstelle participates in several European projects dealing with digitalisation, well-being, health and standardisation in relation to ageing and older persons. In that frame, she works on the popularization of these issues towards older people and relevant European stakeholders. She is also committed to organising participatory processes to ensure that older people have their say in the process. As campaign officer, she coordinated the #AgeingEqual global campaign against ageism in late 2018 and actively contributes to AGE capacity-building and awareness-raising activities to tackle age stereotypes and discrimination against older persons.
Paul Chamberlain
Professor of Design
Paul Chamberlain
Professor of DesignPaul is Professor of Design, Co-Director of the Cultural Communication and Computing Research Institute, Head of the Art and Design Research Centre, Director of Design Futures and Co-Director of interdisciplinary research group Lab4Living. His work explores the multi-sensory aspects of design and the role of artefacts that define pertinent societal questions as much as present solutions.