New Aging Conference to Deal with Aging, Architecture and Our Future

On October 1 and 2, at the University of Pennsylvania School of Architecture, a conference called New Aging "will investigate recent advances in architecture and urbanism dealing with age-related challenges." As Matthias Hollwich, the conference's instigator, phrases it, designers can work to positively transform the aging process: 

"Not by building nursing homes for the elderly, but by creating architecture that supports a life that we personally would also be interested in living when old."

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Keiichi Matsuda's Augmented City

Augmented City 3D from Keiichi Matsuda on Vimeo.

Keiichi Matsuda, a designer and film maker, often enjoys explore futuristic design concepts through the medium of film. One of his latest experiments is entitled Augmented City, a small walk through a few
minutes in different people’s lives in a city filled with augmented reality technology. Beyond forecasting
the way people may live in the future, the video demonstrates a series of different technological devices
and interfaces.

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