EEPDA 2012 - International Workshop on Elderly’s everyday practices as a design approach

This workshop is oriented towards experiences in design using communities of everyday practice and situated elderliness as a design approach. Originally the notion of communities of practice was used in the understanding of situated learning processes in organizations, but it has also become quite influential in participatory design as a way of understanding relations between different groups of users in a specific context [6]. In this workshop focus is on how we can use the notion of communities of practice notion as a design approach when working with elderly. The participants will share experiences, identify major challenges when working in this field, and discuss possible ways to approach these challenges.