Ageing in Lillestrøm

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In June, Yanki spent three days at Lillestrøm, a city between Oslo and Gardermoen Airport in Norway to conduct a design workshop as part of the UD2012 conference programme, the first Universal Design Conference in Europe.

The theme of the workshop is called “Ageing in Lillestrøm” where the conference was held. Working with four students from Norway, the workshop aimed to help people unfold their own ingenuity and inspire them to develop new ideas for our healthy and active future selves. Students were guided to go through three stages:

– Mapping Lillestrøm with the locals
– Improving ‘your’ Lillestrøm
– Prototyping in ‘our Lillestrøm’

After working intensively for three days, the team shared their process in images and video to audiences at the conference. After the presentation, our main sponsor, Kjetil Knarlag from Norges Teknisk-Naturvitenskapelige Universitet (NTNU), commented that this was an excellent experience for both the students involved members of the local community.

Special thanks to participants: Helene Aastveit, Romina Bianconi, Erlend Bleken, Elham Mahootchi, and my co-worker Claire Quinn