Design Age, Define Age
By Carly Dickson
To best design age, we should consider how we define age. Take the survey to explore how age does or does not define us.
Design & Innovation
Packaging petition
By This Age Thing
Add your voice to our petition to Government to introduce minimum mandatory standards for consumer packaging.
Falls – when they happen and their link to ageism
By Lise Pape
Lise Pape discusses the incidence of falls as we age, and invites you to share your experiences of falls for a new research project.
Living with my future self at 35
By Melanie Smith
Design Age Institute Manager, Melanie Smith debates long-term illness and why it doesn’t get triggered by your first pension instalment.
To infinity and Bezos
By Gigi Eligoloff
Alexa, play ‘Who Wants to Live Forever’ - Amazon founder, Jeff Bezos backs scientists who discover how to reverse skin ageing by 30 years.
Design with us
By Ros Wilson
Why bother involving older people in design? Ros Wilson shares her insights and experience of living in the third age of life; what older people have to offer, not just for solutions relating to older people’s problems, but for good design for everyone.
No time to waste
By Victoria Patrick
Join Design Age Institute on 9 November to explore how design can help tackle the challenges of a planet that is rapidly heating up and a population that is rapidly ageing.
Where’s the loo?
By George Lee
Where's the loo?" is a common thought for all of us throughout our lives. To try to answer this question Jo-Anne Bichard and Gail Ramster created The Great British Public Toilet Map.
From the heart: inspired design
By Paul Campbell
The Centaur is a revolutionary electric vehicle which will keep people mobile whatever their age. It was inspired by Bill, the father of its designer.