ADFF Panel on Living Together: The Story of De Warren & Where We Grow Older
Living Together follows a group of young people during the creation of a housing cooperative that aims to be sustainable, social, and affordable. The project is ambitious. Not only is it the first of its kind in the Netherlands, but the group of young residential pioneers has the added challenge of having no house-building experience. Follow the housing pioneers from their festival-planning roots as KONIJN to their permaculture farm in Portugal and eventually to the creation of De Warren.
Where will you live as you age? Will your city take care of you? How should we design for the elderly, and for those who care for them? Where We Grow Older looks at how the growing aging population is reshaping architectural and social constructs, and questions the role of urban design and politics in facing these challenges. The film investigates two models of care and housing: public housing as part of municipal policies and infrastructure (city as caretaker) and the creation of a new architectural model that offers care in a single building managed by private entities not only to the elderly but also to their caretakers (building as city). The film takes us to projects in Barcelona and Baltimore, showing two vastly different contexts for exploring the same fundamental question.
Panelists
Sara Stevens, Moderator  |
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Dr. Atiya Mahmood  |
Dr. Atiya Mahmood is a Professor at the Department of Gerontology at Simon Fraser University. She has a PhD in Architecture/Environment-Behaviour Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her training is in environmental gerontology and her research focuses on health and built environments for older adults with a specific interest in neighbourhood environments, mobility/walkability, active living and pro-social behaviour/social engagement of diverse groups of older adults in community-based and supportive housing. She has over two decades experience in qualitative and mixed methods research in the areas of environment-behaviour studies and aging and built environment.
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Eitaro Hirota
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Eitaro Hirota is a Principal Architect at Eitaro Hirota Architecture. His practice focuses on designing inclusive multi-generational spaces that delight. His interests include aging in-place, cuisine and inclusion across a diverse range of private and public project types including multi and single family residential, commercial, retail and medical.
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Dr. Marc White  |
Marc White PhD worked in the non-profit sector for over 40 years. He was founder and former CEO of the Work Wellness and Disability Prevention Institute. He holds an appointment as a Clinical Assistant Professor with the Department of Family Practice at the University of British Columbia. His academic research interests include the intersection of work and health, mental health, active lifestyles, housing, ageing, and social determinants of health. Dr. White has been appointed three times on the City of Vancouver's advisory committee focused on older adults and elders. He is currently Chair of the advisory committee and co-chair of the housing subcommittee. Marc lives in non-profit co-operative housing. In 2021 he published a comprehensive analysis of the social and economic benefits of co-op housing in the City of Vancouver.
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