Age-Inclusive Public Space is a vision project about senior citizens and their use of public space. Older people, adults weakened by illnesses, belong to a group of citizens often ignored when it comes to urban planning even though they represent a growing part of the population.
The project will result in a publication which is easily understandable, useful and practical, for the purpose of inspiring stakeholders with a daily working interest in senior citizens as well as those working in the construction industry.
The aim is not to end up with a city meant for older people, but a city that understands its own space as a stage on which to perform happy interaction and intergenerational coexistence and capability. Age Inclusive Public Space intends to shake our ways of thinking and introduce urban planning that creates public spaces for everybody, spaces where frail older people can participate and contribute to city life, based on their own resources.
Age-Inclusive Public Space was initiated by Studio Fountainhead, a design agency, and is being developed in cooperation with several professionals who work with senior citizens, and a group of elderly fellow citizens.
In 2018, EGV Foundation granted DKK 229.000 to national and international promotion of the project.
Age-Inclusive Public Space is an anthology in English to be published by German publisher Hatje Cants in 2019, a graphically ambitious and practical book which is meant to inspire architects, urban planners and politicians in order to create numerous public spaces that will enable participation and contributions from all generations.
The publication includes an architectural case from the Danish town of Vordingborg. In addition, there are contributions by Danish as well as international researchers.
Age-Inclusive Public Space is a Danish pixie version of the English edition.