100 year life

Report
14/06/2018

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Inside you will find

  • Recommendations on an integrated approach to housing, planning and design to support people in later life.

This will interest

  • Central and local government
  • Developers
  • Planners
  • Designers
  • Lenders

This joint report from Design Council, Centre for Ageing Better and the Social Care Institute for Excellence calls for an approach to health, housing and care systems to help people to live independently as they age. It looks at how local people should be central to design, delivery and evaluation of services and the importance of developers, planners and local authorities creating age-friendly communities. 

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News & opinion

Sarah Jones
Sarah Jones

Sarah Jones-Morris: A landscape architect on a mission to cure our cities through design In the next article in our Leading Women in Design series, Sarah discusses her passion for striving to create healthier cities, how street trees have a huge impact on our health, and muses on why Vitruvius is still relevant today. In the next article in our Leading Women in Design series, Sarah discusses her passion for striving to create healthier cities.

Feature — 10/09/2018
Design Economy 2018
Design Economy 2018

Why design is integral to the future of UK exports Design will play a major role if we are to increase to reach the government’s ambition of raising exports as a proportion of GDP by 5%. Design will play a major role if we are to increase to reach the government’s ambition of raising exports as a proportion of GDP by 5%.

News — 24/08/2018
Cany Ash
Cany Ash

Cany Ash: urban storyteller and architectural entrepreneur Cany discusses why women need to take ‘just’ and ‘only’ out of their vocabulary, and how diversity is in fact about ‘interculturalism’ as opposed to ‘multiculturalism’. Why women need to take ‘just’ and ‘only’ out of their vocabulary, and the difference between ‘multiculturalism’ and ‘interculturalism’.

Feature — 15/08/2018

Not at the heart of the NPPF but definitely in the mind We are pleased to see that design plays a much more prominent role in the revised National Planning Policy Framework. We are pleased to see that design plays a much more prominent role in the revised National Planning Policy Framework.

News — 07/08/2018
Alice in Wonderland
Alice in Wonderland

Down the rabbit hole: Transform Ageing’s journey into system change Charlotte Burrows is Social Innovation Programme Manager at Design Council. Here, she discusses our Transform Ageing learning journey on system change. Charlotte Burrows, Social Innovation Programme Manager at Design Council, discusses our Transform Ageing learning journey on system change.

Feature — 11/07/2018

Resources

Vulnerable young people
Vulnerable young people

Brent Council: Keeping vulnerable young people safely in the community Brent Council wanted to develop their support for children, young people and their families through our Design in the Public Sector programme. Brent Council wanted to develop their support for children, young people and their families through Design in the Public Sector.

Case study — 12/09/2018