This document discusses collaboration across sectors in trans-sectoral research towards creating flourishing places. It addresses issues like aging populations, urbanization, and sustainability. It advocates for collective leadership and partnerships between different organizations to address challenges through an integrated and holistic approach.

1. The Role of Collaboration in
Trans-sectoral Research
Towards flourishing places in the divine milieu
Ageing Creatively
On the island of Ireland, Europe & USA
Value Ageing Seminar
The Pavilion, Stormont, Belfast , 20th March 2012
Rodd Bond mriai

2. The Dry Stone Wall
• Function
• Form
• Economy
• Time

3. Variations and change
• Within and without
• Inclusion and exclusion
• Organic adaptation
• Marking our place / ownership
• Mediating connection

4. Sustainability context
• Global
– Urbanisation
– Globalisation
– Climate change
– Demographic ageing
• National Settlement Economic activity
– Spatial strategy
– Economic competitiveness/jobs
– Energy / environment
– Ageing well Quality
• Regional/County/Community of
– Inclusive planning at a local level
Life
• Economic
• Social
• Cultural
Climate Demographic
change change
• Situating and differentiating
• Measuring ‘good place’ – ‘fit’

5. Age-Friendly Cities …
• County model for age-friendly development
Connection:
Rural transport & urban mobility
Buildings and outdoor spaces Confidence:
Housing Sense of safety & security
Transport Empowerment:
Respect and inclusion Better access to better information
Social participation Alignment & Convergence:
Civic participation/employment Health, housing and care
Information and communication Shareable places for all:
Community and health services recognise frailty
Lifecourse:
Inter-generational solidarity
Energy for change:
Older people as a resource
• Requires collective leadership fostering
collaboration, partnership and open innovation

6. Arrangement Silos and centres
ECONOMIC PILLAR
ECONOMIC COUNTY CULTURAL
LOUTH DEVELOPMENT BOARD PILLAR
CULTURAL PILLAR SOCIAL PILLAR
SOCIAL
PILLAR PILLAR
ECONOMIC LOUTH AGE-FRIENDLY COUNTY ALLIANCE SOCIAL
LOUTH AGE-FRIENDLY COUNTY ALLIANCE
GOVERNANCE BOARD
CULTURAL
LOUTH AGE-FRIENDLY COUNTY OFFICE
LOUTH AGE-FRIENDLY INFO. INFO.
Ageing in OFFICE
COUNTY sustainable place
LOUTH SERV.SERV.
AGE-FRIENDLY COUNTY
ALLIANCE
OLDER PEOPLE’S
OLDER PEOPLE’S
BUSINESS & TRANSPORT
home HOUSING, HEALTH &
ENTERPRISE&
Business &LOUTH AGE-FRIENDLY & People COMM.
connection
Neighbourhood HOME &
&
enterprise relatedness community
& COUNTY OFFICE
MOBILITY
centres NEIGHBOUR SERVICES
HOOD
FORUM
FORUM
AGE-FRIENNDLY LOUTH
LOUTH
BUSINESS SERVICES PROVIDERS
OLDER PEOPLE’S
FORUM services FORUM STND.
STND.
FORUM
ACCRD.
ACCRD.
Guidelines & tools
COMMUNICATIONS – PRESENTATION
COMMUNICATIONS – PRESENTATION

7. Ageing Well – Intergenerational solidarity
• Rights & Outcomes
Safe from Part of
Economically
Harm positive
Healthy: Secure Supported in
& networks
Physically & & Active living &
Secure in &
Mentally Free from learning
Physical participating in
poverty
environment society
• A New Economics
– Counter ageing
– Human well-being
– Our human energy / hope

8. Citizen-centric Person at the heart
Person
Family
Community/Voluntary
Public services
Private services
Cúltaca
Care & Cure
1. Cross sectoral alignments
2. Pathway integration

9. Flourishing and the divine milieu Action & Passion
Learning Productive Leisure
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100
All phases of activity contribute to individual and societal well-being
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100
All phases of passivity (growth & diminishment) en-rich life

10. Places to Flourish Patterns & principles
• Fostering culture change in long term
care
Privacy
Freedom
Autonomy Entering and leaving / transitions
Person at heart Secret spaces, places, sanctuary
Safety & protection The dining / mealtime experience
Social / therapeutic relationships Personal and therapeutic care
Dignity & respect Getting-up and settling down
Character / aesthetic Personal and social milieu
Sensory experience Dying, death and after death care
Flexibility / adaptability
Orientation / way-finding
• Structure & structure preserving
transformation

11. Our Place - some context! Research timeframes
Temporal horizons: Culture & longevity (John F. Haught)
Dinosaurs arrive (p225 Volume 30) – extinct (p385) Hominid ancestors – p440
Life’s story begins (Volume 22)
Modern man – last 5th of p450
Earth’s story begins (Volume 21)
From BB to now – 13.7b years

12. Ethical cities – Anam Čara
• Within and without – connectedness and un-folding
work and The digital has truncated time and space.
action …
Outer energy We have forfeited the practice of
diminishment patience, the attention to emergence and
the delight of discovery. ..
positive
solitude
The self has become anxious for what the
our within next instant might bring …
Death and
senses and The greed for destination obliterates the
illumination
creativity journey …
When the sense of destination becomes
friendship as gracious, the journey can become an
awakening adventure of beauty. …
(John O’Donohue)

13. Dissolving walls, Osmosis & Permeable Place

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