28.11.2011 - 05.12.2011

at the William Road Gallery, 7-8 William Road, London NW1 3ER

Ageing Facilities is a new generation urban research initiative actively exploring other ways of using and re-imagining the urban environment in older age. From a choreographed exercise in 'elderly' transgression to a new age ‘sodcasting’ device (designed exclusively for older adults) its practice is based on a wilfully playful programme of site-specific urban interventions.

This exhibition presents a snapshot of Ageing Facilities’ practice as it has evolved over the last five years.

Ageing Facilities is an urban research initiative set up and managed by Sophie Handler as part of her ongoing research into ageing and the urban environment. 

Sophie is currently completing a PhD at the Bartlett, UCL on alternative duties of care in elderly design, and is currently working on the evaluation of a specialist care unit for dementia patients in Lambeth together with the South London and Maudsley NHS Trust, Professor Helen Nicholson (Royal Holloway) and the charity, Age Exchange. 
For more information please contact: sophiehandler@gmail.com or visit: www.ageing-facilities.net