Recently we were given a project to come up with a design response towards the RSA Modern Age competition. The brief is to design a domestic product or living environment for older people that surpasses conventional expectations. We were given four weeks at the start of our third year to dedicate to this project and get to grips with what we were being asked to do.
Modern Age is based on the elderly and how they are seen within society. We had to create a response that either helps a person growing older in the home they made and know or design something for a purpose built home for the elderly that evokes the qualities of a lived-in home. From my own research and investigations i realised how important it is for society to accommodate for the elderly and treat them as equals and not as a burden. This also brought me on to the area of housing accommodation and from this it was very clear that the elderly want to be able to keep their independence at all costs and therefore want to stay in their own homes as long as they can. From this i came up with my 'Staying Put' concept.
Knowing this, i knew i then wanted to design something that could help them do this and so gave me great inspiration to do so. Seeing as it was for elderly people, i purely wanted to base my design on just growing old in itself as there are issues you have to deal with as your body ages. The main example of this is balance and so i took this forward to to create an idea that helps with this problem.
As you can see i developed an idea of a support bar that would help them move throughout their home. As it is still early stages i have yet to determine what the final outcome of the product will be but it will hopefully tackle the problem of the elderly staying in their home and help with their balance.
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