A Built Environment for All Ages: exploring the challenges of accessibility
19 March 2010
Programme
A built environment for all ages - exploring the challenges of accessibility, Friday 19th March, 2010
Main Lecture Theatre, Edinburgh College of Art
For copies of presentations please see: http://www.idgo.ac.uk/useful_resources/presentation.htm
09.00 Coffee and Registration
09.30 Opening Address - Robin Harper, Cross Party Group for Ageing and Older People
Presentations and workshops will focus on issues relating to inclusive design, the role of research, policy and best practice and the implications for the user.
09.45 IDGO TOO (Inclusive Design for Getting Outdoors) new insights from current research:
Catharine Ward Thompson, OPENspace Research Centre, Edinburgh College of Art
Elizabeth Burton/ Lynne Mitchell - University of Warwick and Marcus Ormerod/Rita Newton, SURFACE, University of Salford
11.15 Coffee Break
11.30 John Zeisel - President of Hearthstone Alzheimer Care and the Hearthstone Alzheimer's Family Foundation
12.00 Edinburgh - A City for All Ages? Successes and challenges
Glenda Watt - Strategy Manager, Edinburgh's Joint Plan for Older People
12.30 Old Themes: New Issues
Helena Scott, Policy and Research - Age Concern and Help the Aged
13.00 Questions and Discussion
13.15 Lunch
14.15 Themed workshops to explore issues raised by the presentations relating to the following areas:
i What are the gaps in evidence?
ii Translating evidence into policy
iii Engaging older service users
15.00 Reconvene Plenary/Feedback from workshops
15.30 Tea and informal discussion/networking
16.00 Finish
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