Sep 3, 2024 3:30 PM
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Panel “Semiotics & the Elderly: Embracing a Semiotic approach to Understanding an Ageing society”

Panel “Semiotics & the Elderly: Embracing a Semiotic approach to Understanding an Ageing society”

Panel:
[PA] Semiotics and the Elderly: Embracing a Semiotic Approach to Understanding an Ageing Society (Federico Bellentani, Massimo Leone)
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Speaker:
Sara Hejazi
Università degli studi di Torino
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Aging might be considered one of the great cultural innovations of our times. In a time-lap of 50 years, humanity has gained 36 years of life expectancy world wide. What big data collected from world countries is pointing out is that our species is today dying less, therefore aging more.However, while aging is mostly tackled as a “challenge”, a “problem”, a “health emergency” and a “political issue” in public discourse, the novelty of what it represents from a cultural, philosophical, emotional, aesthetic and social point of view is mostly ignored.Our interdisciplinary contribution aims at highlighting the features of Silver age, analyzed through ethnography, sociology, and design research, within the Eufacets project, aimed at re-constructing memories through the digitalization of “what used to be analogic”. Hence, by means of a relational use of technology for heritage building, the study traces time-space mediations and envisions app- based prototypes for a reflective and slow way of memories sharing. The embodied immersion of the project in institutional spaces of residences for elderly people, suggests the need for re-defining silver age and the relationship between different generations, triggered by technological advancement, and the new possibilities of sharing images as glimpses of life stories.

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2.116 room, WLS (Dobra 55 street)

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