Augmenting Against Inequality: Improving Social-Technological Access for the Senior Community via Design

This discussion demonstrates how empowered, participatorydesign serves as a tool for enhancing thesocial health and wellbeing of vulnerable, disadvantaged,and stratified communities via technologicalaccess. With the essential goal of protecting andpromoting the social health needs of a vulnerableand venerable elderly community in the Fifth Wardof Houston, Texas, USA – multiple collaborativeinitiatives between design students and educators,public health workers, city officials, and communitypartners are augmenting the seniors’ accessto both space and technologies for improved socialconnectivity.

Volume Editors
Billie Faircloth, Howard Frumkin & Sara Jensen Carr

ISBN
978-1-944214-09-8