The Gerontodesign Process

As we said at the beginning of this blog, gerontodesign is defined by Joaquim Parra as the agglutination of the gerontology and the design, but we think : What design?

---What are the features of this design that is agglutinated with this socio anthropological science? ---

There are to many design methods, but one of them call our attention, this method is the UCD or User Centred Design, is kind of funny or may be its the destiny that this design method make use of ethnography research and gerontology uses too.


The UCD helps the designers to understand how people uses and don’t uses the products, this results in reducing the impact of use (Lofthouse V. & T. Bhamra, 2007).


Also in this design process we make use of an anthropological technique called monographs, this technique was developed bythe French sociologist Federico Le Play.


The gerontodesign process is composed by design methods and anthropological techniques all this is implemented using the following technologies: videocamera, cellphones, camera, Aging Suit and Computers systems.