Workshop: Co-Design of Socio-Technical Innovations for Community Care

Aim of the workshop

This workshop examines community care and the co-design of socio-technical innovations. Central to the discussion is the question of how novel approaches to care and support – including assistive and communication technologies – can be conceptualized and developed collaboratively with older adults, their communities, and diverse interdisciplinary actors. Contributions from researchers based in Japan, France, and Germany will present current projects that draw on perspectives from the health sciences, the humanities, and engineering/design. The workshop aims to provide comparative insights into international research approaches and to critically reflect on how participatory methodologies, together with social and technological innovations, may foster sustainable and caring infrastructures for aging societies.

The workshop includes short presentations and Q&A (20´+ 10´ each) and a joint discussion round in the afternoon.

Program

10 – 10:15 am Introduction to the workshop

Franz Waldenberger, DIJ Japan & Claudia Müller, Univ. of Siegen, Germany

10:15 – 10:45 am Challenges for Establishing Community Care in Germany

Dennis Kirschsieper, Univ. of Siegen, Germany

10:45 – 11:15 am Set-up and maintenance of a Living Lab with older adults as co-designers in the European Project e-Vita

Toshimi Ogawa, Tohoku University, Japan

11:15 – 11:30 am coffee break   

11:30 – 12 am Caring Communities and Assistive Technology in Japan

Sebastian Polak-Rottmann & Franz Waldenberger, DIJ Tokyo, Japan

12 – 12:30 Technology in the co-creation of a community gardening program in a Japanese Aging Community

Jianrui Zhao & Chihiro Sato, Keio University, Japan

12:30 – 2:30 pm  Lunch 

2:30 – 3 pm Citizen Science in/for Caring Communities

Claudia Müller, Univ. of Siegen, Germany

3 – 3:30 pm Challenges of Community-Based Participatory Research in Fostering Dementia-Inclusive Communities

Tomoko Wakui, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology, Japan

3:30 – 4 pm Challenges in deploying care-led innovations in long-term-care facilities and Community Care: a French example

Christophe Humbert, Fondation France Japon de l’EHESS & Sebastien Lechevalier, DIJ and EHESS

4 – 4:15 pm coffee break   

4:15 – 5:30 pm Joint discussion and next steps