Contribution to the publication „Vergessen in der Stadt“ (Dr.-Ing. Valerie Rehle)

Design of urban spaces for people with cognitive impairments was the topic of this interdisciplinary collaboration of different creative disciplines, working in different scales. 

Through a transprofessional exchange with experts, a self-test and hearings of those affected, a multilayered knowledge-transfer was possible to understand the extent of age-related diseases like dementia.

It is important to promote awareness about dementia and help people understand age and dementia not only as a societal- but also as an architectural challenge. To therefore create design principles it is expedient to identify and deploy especially potentials of sufferers instead of deficits. After the informative research phase, in a concept phase we worked out a concept sketch regarding social participation
and infrastructure for dementia patients.

project: seminar as part of the teaching research project WOHNEN STADT DEMENZ ( „LIVING CITY DEMENTIA“ / „LIVING INSTEAD OF DEMENTIA“ ) of HFT Stuttgart 

research with Jessica Hauser, student M.A. Interior Design

concept with Caroline Glatt, student M.A. Urban Planning and Vera Münch, student M.A. Interior Architecture

supervision: Prof.in Dr.-Ing. Christina Simon-Philipp, Dr.-Ing. Valerie Rehle M.A. (AM), Dr. Stefan Krämer – Wüstenrot Stiftung