Special Issue – Design-Led Innovation for Healthy Ageing
Message from the Guest Editors
As global populations age, increasing attention has been directed toward understanding how housing, neighbourhoods, urban environments, and community infrastructure can support healthy ageing, ageing in place, and improved quality of life. In turn, this presents an important question for those who shape the built environment. If physical activity, psychological wellbeing, exposure to pollution, health equity and our capacity to age in place are influenced by where and how we live, then should the environments we design be considered more deliberately as part of the healthpromoting ecosystem?
This Special Issue of the Architecture journal explores how architecture, urban design, planning, and related disciplines can contribute to extending healthspan through the creation of age-friendly, healthy, and inclusive built environments. We seek contributions providing evidence-based discussion that position design as a means to achieve quantifiable benefits to human health. The aim for this issue is to demonstrate that design-led innovations in built environment design can positively contribute to the health-promoting ecosystem prolonging healthy life.
Guest Editors
Prof. Dr. Sarah McGann
School of Design, The University of Western Australia, Perth, WA 6009,
Australia
Dr. Kate Hislop
School of Design, The University of Western Australia, Perth, WA 6009,
Australia
Deadline for manuscript submissions
30 June 2027
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