Wise Connections: co-designing places to support creative ageing

随着年龄的增长，我们需要不断增长我们的智力，社会，文化和专业抱负，为我们和他人创造有价值的东西。研究表明，随着年龄的增长，保持和发展这些创造能力对于我们的健康和福祉，我们家庭的福祉以及整个社会的发展至关重要。然而，研究也表明，随着年龄的增长，我们逐渐发现越来越少的真实的机会来（重新）想象，（重新）发现和真正整合我们所重视的事情或价值的东西。换句话说，随着年龄的增长，我们的创造力越来越被边缘化。该项目的目标和愿景是通过创造一种“栖息地”来应对这一挑战，为人们（以及他们所属的社区）提供机会，使他们的创造力随着年龄的增长而不断增长。这个栖息地被设想为物理和/或数字空间的网络，称为“分配”，在那里人们和组织有机会共同制作或简单地参与物理和/或数字社会文化材料和活动，称为“种子”。种子可以在人们自己的家中，公共或专业环境中接触到人们，并旨在激发和使人们能够（重新）想象和（共同）创造对他们和他人有价值的东西。开发“种子”是为了培养探索的好奇心，将人们的兴趣、情感、愿望和想法联系起来，将不同的身份、经验和能力以及实验结合起来。这一建议的价值是有机会获得“种子”，使人们能够塑造自己的“场所”，即他们自己的信任、有价值的做法和环境的社会联系空间，在那里他们可以发现、整合和连接他们认为有价值的事情。该项目将开发第一个种子和分配家庭，以及可持续发展这个生态系统所需的组织和企业模式。

As we grow older, we need to keep growing our intellectual, social, cultural and professional aspirations to produce something of value for us and for others. Research suggests that as we age, retaining and growing these creative capabilities is fundamental for our health and wellbeing, the wellbeing of our families but also the development of our society at large. However, research also suggests that as we grow older we progressively find fewer real opportunities to (re-)imagine, (re-)discover and truly integrate what we value to do or be into the production of something of value. In other words, as we grow older there is an increased marginalisation of our creative capabilities.The aim and vision of the project is to respond to this challenge by creating a kind of 'habitat' that provides opportunities for people (and the communities in which they belong) to keep growing their creative capabilities as they age. This habitat is envisaged as a network of physical and/or digital spaces, referred to as 'allotments', where people and organisations have opportunities to co-produce or simply engage with physical and/or digital socio-cultural materials and activities, referred to as 'seeds'. Seeds can reach people in their own homes, public or professional environments and aim to work as triggers that inspire and enable people to (re-)imagine and (co-)create something of value for them and others. 'Seeds' are developed to foster curiosity for exploration, connection of people's interests, emotions, aspirations and ideas, integration of different identities, experiences and capabilities and experimentation. The value of this proposal is the opportunity to access 'seeds' that enable people to shape their own 'places', i.e. their own spaces of social connections of trust, valued practices and environments, where they can discover, integrate and connect what they value to do into the production of something of value. The project will develop the first family of seeds and allotments but also the organisational and enterprise model that is required in order to sustainably grow this ecosystem.