Architecture of home in later life: towards a fivefold theoretical model Available to Purchase

Gwendoline Schaff is a PhD candidate in Architecture at the University of Liège (Team11 and Inter'act research groups) and at Hasselt University (ArcK research group), Belgium. After a Master's degree in Architecture, she obtained an Aspirant FNRS research grant to complete her PhD. Her doctoral research focuses on the architecture of non-institutional home for older people and explores the relationships between housing and the wellbeing of the inhabitants in later life. During three years, she conducted different field studies in Wallonia (Belgium), both with older people (to understand their home experience) and architects (to understand their design dynamics).

Ann Petermans is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Architecture and Arts, Hasselt University, Belgium. She chairs the Design Research Society's Special Interest Group on Design for Wellbeing, Happiness and Health. Her research interests pertain in particular to designing for experience in designed environments and for diverse user groups and research related to design for subjective wellbeing and how architecture and interior architecture can contribute in this respect. Ann is an editorial board member of The Design Journal and publishes in various high-quality journals. Recently, she co-edited the book Design for Wellbeing: an applied approach (2020), published by Routledge.

Jan Vanrie (PhD, Psychology) is an Associate Professor of Human Sciences and Research Methodology at the Faculty of Architecture and arts, Hasselt University, Belgium. His research interests lie at the intersection of environmental psychology and perception, (interior) architecture, and design research and education. He works with several colleagues in the research group “ArcK-Designing for More”, investigating how people experience and interact with the built environment and looking for ways to support designers in design approaches such as design for subjective wellbeing, design for experience and universal design/design for all.

Fabienne Courtejoie is a practicing architect and Professor at the Faculty of Architecture, ULiège, Belgium. She teaches various architectural studio courses at the Bachelor and Master levels, including the “Habitat/Habiter” workshop. She develops her research activities (supervision of doctoral research, development of research projects and doctoral schools in Africa) within the Team 11 laboratory.

Catherine Elsen is a Professor at University of Liège (ULiege–Belgium) where she teaches architectural studios as well as user-centred and participatory methods and processes to students enrolled in the architectural engineering curriculum. She received her PhD in Engineering Sciences in 2011 (ULiege), a Master in Social Sciences in 2009 (CNAM, Paris) and a MS degree in Architecture and Building Engineering in 2007 (ULiege). Her research interests cover design processes (in architecture and industrial design), and more specifically, the impact design tools and methods have on specific cognitive processes (participation; integration of end-users' needs; creativity; cooperation between team members).