Through architectural and urban design teaching practice, the paper explores how society’s progressive aging affects private and public spaces. The exercise investigates the relationship between living and ageing in seven neighbourhoods in Milan. In particular, it focuses on exploring the transformation and adaption of housing stock and public space, taking into account the strengths and vulnerabilities of the elderly population. The essay delivers the results of a teaching experience that has integrated multiple investigation tools to obtain knowledge on the subject: data, cartography, photography, drawing, and interviews. The paper intends to reconstruct the taxonomy of living of the elderly population in Milano.

City and Aging: Milan. Explorations of the daily life of the elderly in a teaching experience

A. Kercuku;J. Cui;G. Postiglione;
2023-01-01

Abstract

Through architectural and urban design teaching practice, the paper explores how society’s progressive aging affects private and public spaces. The exercise investigates the relationship between living and ageing in seven neighbourhoods in Milan. In particular, it focuses on exploring the transformation and adaption of housing stock and public space, taking into account the strengths and vulnerabilities of the elderly population. The essay delivers the results of a teaching experience that has integrated multiple investigation tools to obtain knowledge on the subject: data, cartography, photography, drawing, and interviews. The paper intends to reconstruct the taxonomy of living of the elderly population in Milano.
2023
ageing, teaching practice, Milan
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