In this episode, our host Wendy Tsai, a Registered Architect with multidisciplinary expertise and an interest in the social impacts that macro swings in trends have on community building and design needs, takes a deeper dive with Ms. Karen Lee from the Polytechnical University and the Jockey Club Design Institute for Social Innovation on how we can move towards a more inclusive and participatory society.

Karen is a chartered town planner and project manager specializing in urban integration and city management strategies. Karen’s keen interest in humancentric design sees her leading a number of participatory co-design projects on well-being and creating shared value through cross-sector collaborations, including Transitional Social Housing, intergenerational play space design concept, and age-friendly community planning. She is the co-author of the “Tackling Double Ageing with Double Smart” article which won the HKIP Awards in 2019.

In this episode, we discussed:

• Age-friendly is not just Senior Housing

• Double Ageing and Double Smart

• Intergenerational Living

• Minimum Viable Product for a New Asset Class

• Sustainability, ESG, and ways to be involved

Download the transcript of this episode here.