Transition Design is a new design proposition for a rapidly changing society based on Service Design and Social Innovation Design, thinking about the concept of the “long term” and global localism, and placing the natural world in a more macro context. It promotes a transition to a more sustainable future for a design-led society and a more systematic way of thinking. In a workshop context, it can play a role in guiding stakeholders associated with seniors to explore deeper needs, explore more inclusive ways of “being” in the future and promote more sustainable systemic change in communities by a diverse group of participants. This paper presents a case study of the design workshop “Age-Friendly Community Centres in 2050,” which uses Transition Design as a guideline. The workshop involved students from the Department of Architecture and Design and stakeholders (seniors, social workers, volunteers), looking at the future of more inclusive communities in a more holistic world view based on local realities in the context of an ageing world. The workshop focused on how to analyse complex problems at the societal and systemic levels from a design perspective and identify solutions that can be iterated at multiple levels of scale and over longer time scales to facilitate the construction of new and more harmonious spaces and lifestyles for seniors and other residents in the community of the future. In the workshop, the current dilemmas faced and the way forward were analysed in terms of a map of problems, stakeholder relationships, stakeholder concerns, and a 4-step design intervention to expand possible solutions. As a result, the workshop built a discussion and vision on the future possibilities of ageing and communities, while also providing a methodology for analysing transformation issues and discovering sustainable and inclusive solutions for communities.
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