- Title
- Cross-cultural design for healthy ageing
- Creator
- Scharoun, Lisa; Hills, Danny; Montana-Hoyos, Carlos; Peng, Fanke; Sung, Vivien
- Date
- 2020
- Type
- Text; Book
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/175263
- Identifier
- vital:14953
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781789383102
- Abstract
- We wrote this book as a compilation of many years of research and pedagogical experiences around cross-cultural and multidisciplinary design for healthy ageing. In it, we combine different voices and perspectives, including descriptions of several cross-cultural design for healthy ageing workshops conducted with students from design and nursing disciplines in different Australasian locations. These experiences are described in detail, offering a roadmap and many ideas for readers to build upon. Literature reviews and background research inform these practical experiences, which were then used to develop new theory and insights around the topics, mainly from academic and pedagogic points of view. The multiplicity of voices of student participants in the workshops provides a more personalised account of these experiences, while our reflections highlight the pedagogic and life-changing value of these experiences. We are a multidisciplinary team of researchers based mainly in Australia. Initially, a majority of the team members met while working at the University of Canberra (UC), with specialties in nursing, graphic design, industrial design, and fashion design, all from different cultural backgrounds and with interests in health and healthy ageing. Building on research undertaken with several study tours of Australian students from design and nursing to various Asian countries, mainly China and Singapore, and through collaborations with numerous partners including higher education institutions in Singapore, China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, the research team explored the multi-layered relationships between design and healthy ageing. "From Introduction"
- Publisher
- Intellect
- Rights
- All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
- Subject
- Aging -- Cross-cultural studies; Health
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