From representation to active ageing in a Manchester neighbourhood: designing the age-friendly city
- Submitting institution
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Manchester Metropolitan University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 237537
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- C - Chapter in book
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- Book title
- Age-friendly cities and communities: A global perspective
- Publisher
- Policy Press
- ISBN
- 9781447331315
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- January
- Year of publication
- 2018
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
- Research group(s)
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A - Architecture
- Proposed double-weighted
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- Additional information
- This chapter presents the ‘Age-Friendly Old Moat’ project, a design-research programme undertaken in collaboration with Manchester City Council and Southway Housing Trust, which was the first critical attempt to apply the World Health Organisation’s ‘Age-Friendly City’ principles at a neighbourhood scale. It developed and disseminated innovative co-produced research and action planning methodologies in order to support people to live longer, healthier lives and formed part of a ‘Manchester case-study’ which continues to be widely cited (e.g. by WHO in their ten-year plan) and applied within age-friendly practice (e.g. in 2018 in Unley City in South Australia). This chapter provides a theoretical analysis of the design-research method relating architectural design to processes of co-production philosophically, pedagogically and in relation to inclusion. It represents over 10 years of design-research practice which has been applied at the regional scale as the template for Greater Manchester’s (GM) £10m Ambition for Ageing programme. This research has globally established an ‘age-friendly neighbourhood approach’, improved quality of life for 19,854 older people across 6 communities in Manchester and shaped relevant policy and practice, including the Greater Manchester ‘Ageing in Place’ programme (over 12 districts and 151,000 older residents). Furthermore it has influenced global policy and practitioner discourse on developing age-friendly cities through contribution to Manchester’s status as the first UK World Health Organisation Age Friendly City. As part of a volume edited by leading UK Gerontologist Prof. Phillipson, with a foreword by John Beard, Director of the World Health Organisation Age Friendly Cities programme, the collection gathers significant international research, policy and practice contributions curated through the ESRC funded Global Urban Ageing Network, to investigate ways of addressing the urgent global challenge of population ageing and increasing urbanisation.
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