A new Pratt exhibition explores the opportunities for design to make our later years more fulfilling By Diana Budds Feb 21, 2020, 2:30pm EST Designed by David Baker architects, the Dr. George W. Davis Senior Building, in San Francisco, includes a 15,000-square-foot senior community day center and 121 affordable homes for local low-income and formerly homeless seniors. Bruce Damonte There are three design fears that keep Jeremy Myerson , a professor and chair of design at the Royal College of Art, up at night: poorly designed mobility scooters, stairlifts, and walkers. “Why is [design for the elderly] so bad?” he wondered in a recent Tedx talk . “Why is it all about medical looking aids and appliances? Why is it sourced from obscure catalogs rather than the Conran shop? Who thought that white plastic grab rails in a kitchen are a good idea? Why are expectations so low, so beige, so bland?” As Myerson observed, aging has traditionally been perceived as a medical probl
