On 8 April we participated in a seminar on "Senior Citizens' Homes - Contemporary Trends and Challenges in Management" at the Complex of Chemical, Medical and General Education Schools in Tarnowskie Góry. (more…)

If anyone would like to expand the knowledge about cohousing, we recommend you to read the Bulletin of the Silesian University of Technology,  in which Agnieszka Labus answers Jolanta Skwaradowska's questions about: "Cohousing - an increasingly popular trend in urban planning". Article available: here

We are very pleased to announce that Edyta Sadowska is among the JUTRONAUCI 2022 program of Gazeta Wyborcza and Kulczyk Investments, i.e. people who change the world through their actions! (more…)

On March 22, Agnieszka Labus was a guest on the live Urbcast - a podcast about cities / podcast about cities and it was about, among other things: How does the Laboratory of Architecture 60+ (LAB 60+) and the Era of the New Elderly work? What nomenclature to use when talking about older people? (more…)

Last week was very intensive for us due to the 4-day training (lectures and workshops) that we had the opportunity to conduct for the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice on accessibility in public spaces - standards and practice. During the training, we tried to use a variety of methods to transfer knowledge and our experience in an accessible way, including: design thinking, mind mapping and future thinking. There was a discussion about permanent, temporary and future disability, which participants could experience thanks to "crossfit accessibility". It was also about how to define accessibility and whether spatial barriers are everything in its understanding? And also about universal design today and tomorrow - how accessibility is understood in the design of future cities and is there an understanding of the concept of universal design more broadly as universal planning? What various beneficiaries can do in this area for better accessibility in cities in pursuit of their universality, being more just and equalizing development opportunities for their inhabitants and residents? The culmination of the training was a competition for good and bad design practices in urban spaces and buildings, which showed the participants how difficult the role of accessibility auditors is! Thank you ASP Katowice for the trust and the opportunity to meet with you creatively! [ngg src="galleries" ids="136" display="basic_thumbnail" thumbnail_crop="0"]

Green competences are our common future, regardless of our age - as you well know it is also our LAb color, therefore within the GreenerAge project on adaptation of 55+ generation to environmental changes, implemented under Erasmus+, in which we are a partner, our activities are gaining momentum. We are starting national researches, which together will give us a broad picture of the competences we already have, but also by mapping the competence gaps will allow us to take focused actions to build sustainable green competences, especially among the 55+ generation. And today we ask you for support in a creative task... Below are some of our graphics created for the GreenerAge project - we invite you to fill in the balloons/clouds 🗯💭 What do you think these people are saying, what are they thinking, what important messages are they conveying? Write to us on priv or at office@lab60plus until March 25th, 2022 - you can win our original, unique LAB 60+ notebook and a short interview with you in our post, in addition the words will be translated into English on the website and graphics promoting the project 😍. We're curious about your creativity🤓.