IFLA Working Programme 01 - Age-Friendly Communities and Landscapes
Goal: Promote the design of age-friendly communities and landscapes that support the needs of older adults, fostering active aging, social inclusion and well-being.
Impact: Create more inclusive and supportive communities that enhance the quality of life for older adults.
Working Programme Members
Director - Sirle Salmitsu
Sirle Salmitsu is a senior lecturer at the Tallinn University of Technology, and she also works as a landscape architect and urban planner in the landscape architecture Office Outsiders, LLC in Estonia. Her research interests include planning for age-friendly communities, urban aging, healthy communities, accessibility, and placemaking. She has a PhD in urban and regional planning from Michigan State University. She is advocating for better integration of needs and expectations of older adults in urban planning and design fields to achieve a more equitable community life for all members across generations and to provide a supportive environment for a healthy aging.
Co-director - Shulin Shi
Shulin Shi currently works at the department of Landscape Architecture, School of Architecture Tsinghua University, Beijing PRC. Her research areas include health promoting landscape planning and design, landscape for the elderly, landscape for active living, quantitative social research, and qualitative social research. She has a PhD in division of Landscape Architecture from the University of Hong Kong.
