Recently Evelien van Veen gave a lecture at a conference in Venice called “We do care. Architecture and design for the elderly and for people with disabilities. A confrontation between Dutch and Italian contexts.” This conference was hosted by the Università Iuav di Venezia.
The purpose of the conference is a confrontation between the Netherlands and Italian realities on the issues of architectural design, open spaces and design for the elderly and people with disabilities, one of the most important topics in the current socio-cultural scenario of the European Union.
Evelien gave her lecture, “Forever young?’’ along with many other interesting speakers such as Chris Van Langen (Creative industries fund NL), Marjo Alers (‘s Heeren Loo), Caro van Dijk (oostwest) and Femke Feenstra (Gortemaker Algra Feenstra). From the Italian context the speakers included Silvano Pangerc (I.S.R.A.A.), Monica Botta (Studio Monica Botta), Francesca Camerin (Università Iuav di Venezia), Michela De Poli and Adriano Marangon (MADE Associati) and finally Rosaria Revellini (Università Iuav di Venezia).
These speeches will also be compiled into a publication, which we look forward to sharing.
