Co-designing with vulnerable social groups: LONGEVICITY project

LONGEVICITY – Social Inclusion for the elderly through walkability is a multidisciplinary research project funded by Fondazione Cariplo2 within the Call Scientific Research 2017 “Ageing and social research: people, places and relations”. The research consortium is led by the Department of Computer Science, Systems and Communication (University of Milano-Bicocca) and composed by the Design Department (Politecnico di Milano), AUSER Lombardia (regional volunteer association for the elderly) and the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology (University of Tokyo). In the following pages, we will present the social facts and the consequence challenge at the base of our research activities. We will focus on social inclusion goals, which we, as the Design Department, addressed through cross-fertilization between ethnographic methods and participatory design tools and activities.