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Exploring Gerontechnology for Aging-Related Diseases in Design Education: An Interdisciplinary Perspective

  • Aging society is not only a crisis in the developed world but also a severe challenge in some emerging economies. However, the awareness of population aging and gerontechnology is far from sufficiently addressed in the architectural design education in universities. Therefore, an interdisciplinary approach in design education is urgently needed to raise the awareness of the aging crisis among the future architects, interior designers, and beyond. This article introduces a novel model of a design seminar offered by a German University, addressing population aging issues in the architecture department. The syllabus, formality, and the expected results of the seminar are revealed in detail. The participants are encouraged to apply interdisciplinary knowledge such as barrier-free architecture, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, robotics, medicine, psychology, and business to achieve the goals of the seminar. Based on the originality and degree of completion, several students' works are selected and reported, targeting a variety of diseases or syndromes related to aging, such as dementia, immobility, and tremors. Overall, participants of this seminar are motivated and have positive feedback on this seminar, oftentimes claiming that they have seldom studied similar topics in previous architecture education. This enables students from architecture as well as other fields to be better prepared to tackle the upcoming challenges such as labor shortages and infectious diseases in a rapidly aging world. Furthermore, the seminar creates novel concepts that serve as a win-win "honeypot" for both students and their instructors, potentially sparking research topics and start-ups with concepts fostered in this seminar.

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Author:Rongbo HuORCiD, Thomas LinnerORCiDGND, Marc Schmailzl, Jörg Güttler, Yuan Lu, Thomas BockORCiD
DOI:https://doi.org/10.22260/ISARC2020/0102
ISBN:978-952-94-3634-7
Parent Title (English):Proceedings of the 37th International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction (ISARC 2020): From Demonstration to Practical Use, To New Stage of Construction Robot, October 27-28, 2020, Kitakyushu, Japan
Publisher:The International Association for Automation and Robotics in Construction (I.A.A.R.C.)
Editor:Kazuyoshi Tateyama, Kazuo Ishii, Fumihiro Inoue
Document Type:conference proceeding (article)
Language:English
Year of first Publication:2020
Release Date:2022/04/28
Tag:Bauhaus 2.0; COVID-19; Dementia; Design education; Gerontechnology; Interdisciplinary; aging-related diseases
First Page:735
Last Page:742
Institutes:Fakultät Bauingenieurwesen
Begutachtungsstatus:peer-reviewed
Publication:Externe Publikationen
research focus:Gebäude und Infrastruktur
Licence (German):Keine Lizenz - Es gilt das deutsche Urheberrecht: § 53 UrhG