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Stanford Longevity Design Challenge 2021/22

“Longevity-Ready Environments: Rethinking Physical Spaces for Century-Long Lives So is the Stanford Center on Longevity theme for this ninth year of the Longevity Design Challenge 2021/22. The open call for design submissions begins in mid-September with teams of finalists announced this coming January and winners chosen sometime in April 2022. Every year since 2013, I

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ZoomReel 2020: Episode 5 – Cities, COVID & Ageing Populations

110 Years from Pathé…Zoom – It’s InTALKsicating! When the Zoom world made lift off in April this year I decided to format and share what I learned from webinars, interviews and town hall meetings, much the way Charles Pathé the man who created the Newsreel format did around 1910. For well over fifty years, newsreel

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Architects for Urban Aging – 1

Third Age. Basically described as “a period in life of active retirement, following middle age”, this term has occupied Boomer vocabulary for some time, as another way of re-framing our mind set around retirement and old age. Then there’s the whole Tolkien Third Age, Middle-earth time frame to consider. But let’s not get carried away.

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