Intergenerational Cities
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Drawing by Mark Brearley mapping the complex existing industry of Old Kent Road., Tarsha Finney/RCA 2017
Drawing by Mark Brearley mapping the complex existing industry of Old Kent Road., Tarsha Finney/RCA 2017
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La Borda, Barcelona by LaCol Cooperativa (Architects)., Tarsha Finney/RCA 2017
La Borda, Barcelona by LaCol Cooperativa (Architects)., Tarsha Finney/RCA 2017
Essential to understanding the opportunities and challenges of the global intensification of urban life and of a general move toward the city and its inner urban core, is understanding the parallel question of ageing and labour. The plasticity of human capital, its ‘employability’ within new and emerging labour markets, depends on its capacity for both mobility, and for lifelong learning and adaptation. This demand extends the productive lifespan of human beings beyond concepts of retirement established in the twentieth century, while pulling people out and away from traditional support structures such as community or family, those sites that have traditionally carried the responsibility of care for the old and the very young. The Intergenerational Cities Research Group asks: where are the new collectivities of intimacy and care for the intergenerational city if the single-family dwelling and the nuclear and extended family are no longer fit for purpose, or are being pulled undone?
This research group examines the conditions under which such a
question of the relationship between housing and the city may begin to occur:
through spatial experimentation and through the innovation and transformation
of the performance of housing at multiple scales, in the context of new
procurement processes that support such transformation, and through the
regulatory framing that needs to transform to support innovation and
experimentation with housing ownership.
Research theme convenor: Dr Tarsha Finney
Staff Members
Dr Adam Kaasa
Diana Ibáñez López
Dr Jingru Cyan Cheng
Dr Sam Jacoby
Valerio Massaro
MPhil/PhD Students & Supervisors
Francesca Romana Forlini, ‘From Within’. Supervisors: Dr Sam Jacoby and Dr Adrian Lahoud
Collaborators & Partners
StART (St Ann’s Redevelopment Trust) Haringey
Research Projects
Adrian Lahoud, Sharjah Architecture Triennial (2019)
Outputs & Events
The Future of Work: New geographies and temporalities of employment and welfare, 2019
Future Homes for London: Alternate Models, 2018
Housing as Intervention: Architecture towards Social Equity, 2018
CONTACT
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