Socially healthy, Livable, INNOVATIVE, huMan-oriented

Socially healthy, Livable, INNOVATIVE, huMan-oriented

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Project info

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Contact person: Masi Mohammadi
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Three ways to use smart technology

The use of technology in a SLIM neighbourhood can be embedded in three ways Firstly, innovative technological interventions can be utilized as co-creation tools. Secondly, technology can be employed as a smart spatial intervention, for instance, to enhance self-sufficiency. Finally, technology can be used as an information source to understand the impact of the residential environment on senior residents. When these three methods are embedded into the residential environment, a SLIM neighbourhood can emerge that knows its residents, thinks and empathizes with them, and provides support where necessary.

1. Innovative technology as a co-creation tool

The design of the SLIM neighbourhood is done through co-creation. To achieve this in a co-creation process involving all stakeholders – both residents and professional stakeholders – commonly known methods have been used to date; for example, think of the use of collages and models. However, in the subproject ‘Shaping smart neighbourhoods for healthy aging,’ innovative methods such as Virtual Reality and Digital Twin are being explored for use in the co-creative design process. These techniques help designers and researchers to communicate with residents and professional stakeholders on an equal level. This can be achieved by allowing residents and other stakeholders to experience the design choices in a digital environment.

Title: Shaping smart neighbourhoods for healthy ageing. Towards new manmade Blue Zone in smart contemporary communities
Duration: November 2018 – november 2022
Lead organization: This subproject is a PhD trajectory of the Eindhoven University of Technology, Chair of ‘Smart Architectural Technologies’.

Scientific articles & professional publications

What is already known about the concept of ‘make it your own’ concerning senior demographics and smart technology? This article provides an overview of the state-of-the-art.

Najafi, P., Mohammadi, M., Le Blanc, P. M., & van Wesemael, P. (2022). Insights into placemaking, senior people, and digital technology: a systematic quantitative review. Journal of Urbanism: International Research on Placemaking and Urban Sustainability, 1-30.

How can we give senior target groups a voice in the co-creation process of developing a SLIM neighbourhood? This article provides insight into the development of the prototype of such an instrument.

Najafi, P., Mohammadi, M., Le Blanc, P. M., & van Wesemael, P. J. V. (2021). Experimenting a Healthy Ageing Community in Immersive Virtual Reality Environment: The Case of World’s Longest-lived Populations. In The 17th International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE2021) [9486595] Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

Innovative methods such as Virtual Reality and Digital Twin can be used as co-creation tools. This article provides insight into the experiences of senior target groups regarding the use of this instrument.

Najafi, P., Mohammadi, M., Le Blance, P. M., & van Wesemael, P.(2022). Intelligent Placemaking, Bringing Digital Twin and Virtual Reality to Shape a Healthy Ageing Neighbourhood: The Blue Zones’ Case and User Experience Study.

2. Smart spatial interventions

The research on the design of smart spatial interventions to promote self-reliance is currently ongoing. When results are available, they will be published on this page.

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3. Technology as a source of information for measuring impact.

The research on measuring impact using smart technology as an information source is currently ongoing. When results are available, they will be published on this page.

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