Mind Palace : Exploring Connections Between Memory, Accessibility and Personal Storytelling

Tanaya Deshpande // Dee Nicholas

Mind Palace : Exploring Connections Between Memory, Accessibility and Personal Storytelling  

The Mind Palace is an intergenerational daycare center that aims to promote healthy cognitive ageing in place through community-driven programming and design. It seeks to understand and explore attachments formed with the built environment through personal storytelling, wayfinding, and cognition. Design decisions are informed by inferences gained through employing a research-driven process by reactivating a neighbourhood landmark; this project supports cognitive ageing in the Mantua/ Powelton community. Evidence-based methods include participatory sessions with the community and expert interviews.