Designing for Your Future Self

Dive into our latest report, Design Age Ideas, and get inspired by the role we each have to play in designing better for an ageing population.

Join us at the Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibition, to explore the power of age-inclusive design to help everyone age happier and healthier.

Discover a new way to think about ageing and how to design services and products for older adults in a Masterclass in Design for an Ageing Population.

Watch our talk exploring how designers can create products, services and environments that are not only needed, but desired by older people.

Explore how design is transforming the way society can support everyone to age with greater agency and joy in a new display featuring ten projects being supported by the Institute.

Join a panel of experts to explore how can organisations create products, services and environments that are not only needed, but desired, by older people?

The Wisdom Hour invites you to reflect on getting older (and possibly wiser!) over a cup of tea.

Our upcoming display at the Design Museum from 24 February, will showcase ten innovative design initiatives that aim to help everyone age more happily and healthily.

Our recent exhibit 'The Future of Ageing', co-curated with the Design Museum, is touring to the V&A Dundee between 12 October 2022 - 22 January 2023.

Watch our talk and panel discussion at the Design Museum, exploring how technology is shaping how we design for an ageing population.

Watch our event on designing for your future sex life - sex, intimacy and pleasure as we age.

Join us for the next session of Designing for Your Future Self on 24 May at the Design Museum to explore the impacts of emerging technologies for an ageing population.

Join us at the Design Museum on 22 March as we discuss how we can design for our future sex lives, intimacy, and pleasure as we age.

Watch our event on designing for a future in which the planet is rapidly heating up at the same time as populations are living longer.

Watch the launch of our 'Designing for Your Future Self' talks series at the Design Museum on 21 September 2021.

Explore a future in which the planet is heating up at the same time as populations are living longer.

Join the debate about the future of longevity, climate change and design in the second session in our Designing for Your Future Self talks series.

Join us as we launch our new programme of events on 21/09 as part of the Design Museum’s programming for the London Design Festival.

Book to attend the first in our talks series at Design Museum exploring the ideas, trends and passions that are shaping our future lives.