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🤓.  

In the latest issue of Architektura-murator you can read, among others, a short essay by Agnieszka Labus on the theory and practice in architecture, and in it there is, among other things, the theory of behavioral architecture and how architecture should combine the rational and emotional world. entire monthly magazine: here 

"Why is it worthwhile, when you are in your teens, to join the people dreaming up visions of old age? Can theater help in the journey to the future and make us imagine our old age in 30, 40 or 50 years from now? What changes can we make while designing our old age? How do we talk to the old age that slumbers within us?" We will try to answer these questions, together with the New Theatre and the Center for Gerontological Education, in the project: 𝗛𝗲𝗷 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘆_𝗮! 𝗚𝗘𝗡𝗘𝗥𝗔𝗧𝗢𝗥 𝗡𝗢𝗪𝗘𝗝 𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗥𝗢𝗦́𝗖𝗜, which will include a series of workshops for high school students, educators, and open house events that will be geared towards those over the age of 16. The aim of all activities within the framework of "Hey Stary_a!..." is to generate solutions, ideas, motives for the creation of an Old Age Manual, which will be a collection of good practices and exercises for creative and educational activities with the "new old age".

Sound interesting? - SIGN UP! We start already on March 9!

Hey, Stary_a! // NEW OLDNESS GENERATOR - here Hey, Stary_a! Designing Old Age - here Hey, Stary_a! Focus on old age - here Hey, Stary_a!Exercises in Old Age - here

Project curators: Jakub Drzastwa, Pamela Leończyk Project partners: Architecture Lab 60+, New Old Age Era collective, Centre for Gerontological Education Graphic designer: Nina Budzyńska More about the project you can read: here 

Today we invite you to listen to an interesting program of Radio 357, in which Agnieszka Labus spoke about spatial barriers in cities in relation to ageism, which is the topic of this program. (more…)

Founder and CEO of LAB 60+, Agnieszka Labus was appointed to the Business Council of Vistula University as part of the Vistula Group of Universities. Congratulations! (more…)