Practice outputs Iain Scott Edinburgh School of Architecture & Landscape Architecture. ‘Mobility, Mood & Place’ Co-Design Knowledge Exchange workshops at British Society of Gerontology and ‘Mobility, Mood and Place’ conferences in Stirling & Edinburgh. 7th July and 14th October 2016. Team Presentations at the end of the MMP Conference Interdisciplinary Design workshop on ‘Re-making the Old Town of Edinburgh to be Dementia Friendly’.

Edinburgh School of Architecture & Landscape Architecture. Section 01 Output Mobility, Mood and Place Co-Design Workshop BSG Conference, Stirling University Friday 8th of July ‘Co-design’ is emerging as an important approach in architectural and urban design which diversifies stakeholder participation and representation . The risks and benefits will vary depending on how different stakeholders engage. ‘Mobility, Mood and Place’ explores how places can be designed collaboratively to make pedestrian mobility easy, enjoyable and meaningful for older people.  The built environment often excludes marginalised groups such older people, single mothers and others with special needs. Participatory co-design approaches can include such stakeholders so as to address their priorities and ensure that other stakeholders empathise with their perspective. This can enhance students’ methodological flexibility and empathy. This workshop gave delegates the opportunity to take part in co-design activities along with students of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, which utilised drawing, modelling and digital techniques of making and representing in three dimensions. Following an introduction to the project delegates worked in small groups with students to imagine, design and make a small building and landscape design suitable for older people and people with dementia. Following a short discussion on the techniques used and their effectiveness, digital techniques of recording and projection were utilised to help present and critique each group proposition. Iain Scott Edinburgh School of Architecture & Landscape Architecture. ‘Mobility, Mood & Place’ Co-Design Knowledge Exchange workshops. 7th July and 14th October 2016.

Edinburgh School of Architecture & Landscape Architecture. Section 01 Output Mobility, Mood and Place Co-Design Workshop MMP Conference, Edinburgh. Friday 14th October 2016 Bringing delegates from many diverse disciplines together with local older people, and students from the Universities of Edinburgh and Stirling, this workshop showcased skills and techniques of co-design. The first part took us into the heart of Edinburgh’s UNESCO World Heritage site where, working in four groups, we used a ‘Neighbourhoods for Life – dementia-friendly’ checklist as the catalyst for a ‘walk and talk’ conversation about a small, mixed-use area adjacent to the Royal Mile. We then moved to a design studio environment, where each group worked on two drawings: one showing aspects of their site they’d like to save; and one showing things they’d like to change. After lunch, each group used a basic 1:500 model, simple materials, sketches, photos and text to work up a proposal for their site to make it more dementia-friendly. We finished the session with a whole-group discussion about the proposals and a short Q & A. . Iain Scott Edinburgh School of Architecture & Landscape Architecture. ‘Mobility, Mood & Place’ Co-Design Knowledge Exchange workshops. 7th July and 14th October 2016.

Edinburgh School of Architecture & Landscape Architecture. Section 02 Originality: New Knowledge The workshops were an opportunity to showcase some exemplary co-design research methods developed during the three years of the Mobility, Mood and Place research project. Many of these aspects of good practice are contained in our bite-sized A-Z of Co-Design - a folding wallchart exploring participatory design’s origins, methods and techniques, key roles, principles and issues. Many of the hints and tips are based on our own experiences of delivering a rich, varied programme of co-design activities as part of Mobility, Mood and Place. It combines insights from this work with those of experts from a range of fields – from planning to design, geography to health, sociology to gerontology. Extensively referenced, it is intended as a handy, practical guide for practitioners engaged in participatory design endeavours. The Centre for Accessible Environments (CAE) supported its development. “The Centre for Accessible Environments truly welcomes this engaging tool which will help us all to use participatory design as the norm. We hope to see it adorning walls everywhere” Jean Hewitt, Director, Centre for Accessible Environments Numerous academic papers and conference papers have been published detailing methodological key findings. Iain Scott Edinburgh School of Architecture & Landscape Architecture. ‘Mobility, Mood & Place’ Co-Design Knowledge Exchange workshops. 7th July and 14th October 2016.

Edinburgh School of Architecture & Landscape Architecture. Section 03 Rigour: A Rigorous Process of Investigation. What we know: WHO Age Friendly Cities guidance and other sources for instance ‘An Alternative Age Friendly Handbook’ produced by the RIBA, Age UK, Age Friendly Manchester - and other sources. Knowledge tends to be presented as a checklist which is universal. Designers require to have knowledge of the issues and to investigate through research how these issues become particularised or transformed by place specificity. Over the course of three years we developed through an iterative process a series of research engagements which would operate at five distinct scales of City, Neighbourhood, Building, Space and Body. Research methods employed to operate at the scale of the City and the Neighbourhood included environment and behaviour research methods intended to provide a deeper understanding of place through the eyes of an older inhabitant, along with co-design exercises entitled ‘Save It/ Change It!...Design It!...Share It’! Home based research methods devised to provide insights for designers at the more intimate scales were developed following analysis of literature on the determinants of satisfaction in relation to residential environments amongst older adults and the essential components of an age friendly city found in the World Health Organisation’s ‘Global Age Friendly Cities: A Guide’ (2007) Iain Scott Edinburgh School of Architecture & Landscape Architecture. ‘Mobility, Mood & Place’ Co-Design Knowledge Exchange workshops. 7th July and 14th October 2016. Field-work conversations in Edinburgh’s Old Town

Edinburgh School of Architecture & Landscape Architecture. Section 04 Significance: Effective Sharing Various findings communicated through the workshops have been disseminated by the Mobility, Mood and Place – Co-Created Environments team through various vehicles internationally. 1 presentation to Scottish Parliament’s Cross Party Group on Older People, Age and Ageing. 2 key knowledge exchange outputs (A-Z of Co-design & Design exhibition). 3 science festival events. 4 papers (5th & 6th under review). 6 national and international conferences. 7 co-design sessions (Manchester, London, Edinburgh & Orkney). 63 (approx.) architecture and landscape architecture students involved as co-researchers. 80 (approx.) diverse older adults participated in our work. Iain Scott Edinburgh School of Architecture & Landscape Architecture. ‘Mobility, Mood & Place’ Co-Design Knowledge Exchange workshops. 7th July and 14th October 2016.

Iain Scott Edinburgh School of Architecture & Landscape Architecture. ‘Mobility, Mood & Place’ Co-Design Knowledge Exchange workshops. 7th July and 14th October 2016.

Edinburgh School of Architecture & Landscape Architecture. Appendix 1 (Related Publications by I. Scott only included). Journal Papers (Published) Brookfield, K., Fitzsimons, C., Scott, I., Mead, G., Starr, J., Thin, N., Tinker, A. and Ward Thompson, C. 2015. ‘The home as enabler of more active lifestyles among older people’, Building Research & Information doi: 10.1080/09613218.2015.1045702 Journal Papers (Under review) Brookfield, K. Ward Thompson, C and Scott, I. 2017. ‘The Uncommon Impact of Common Environmental Details on Walking in Older Adults’. Submitted to International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. Scott, I. 2017. ‘Co-Designing Age Friendly Cities: A Report on Collaboration between Older People and Students of Architecture’. Submitted to MDPI Arts Journal. Iain Scott Edinburgh School of Architecture & Landscape Architecture. ‘Mobility, Mood & Place’ Co-Design Knowledge Exchange workshops. 7th July and 14th October 2016.

Edinburgh School of Architecture & Landscape Architecture. Appendix 1 (Related Publications by I. Scott only included). Conference Presentations. Mobility, Mood and Place: Age-friendly environments Presented by Catharine Ward Thompson and Iain Scott at the Mobility, Mood and Place: Habitats for Happy and Healthy Ageing conference. Edinburgh, UK. October 2016. The involvement of older people in the design of environments Presented by Anthea Tinker at the ISG 10th World Conference of Gerontechnology. Nice, France. September 2016. The abstract for this paper appears in ‘The one page paper collection of the 10th World Conference on Gerontechnology’, a supplement to Gerontechnology (2016, vol 15, No 3). Attributed to MMP team. Co-design: a report on collaboration between older people and students of architecture. Presented by Iain Scott at the Challenges and Best Practice in Co-Production conference. Sheffield, UK. May 2016. Mobility, Mood and Place: Co-Created Environments Presented by Iain Scott at the Scottish Housing and Support Conference in Edinburgh. October 2016 Iain Scott Edinburgh School of Architecture & Landscape Architecture. ‘Mobility, Mood & Place’ Co-Design Knowledge Exchange workshops. 7th July and 14th October 2016.