SPECIAL EVENT - JULY
Workshop: How the Built Environment Shapes Our Living Experience
QUT-ACU Ageing Research Team
Date: Thursday 17 July 2025, 9:00am-12:00pm
Presenter: QUT-ACU Ageing Research Team
Venue: City Campus, 97 Creek St.
Register here: www.u3abrisbane.org.au/event-enrol
This is our first joint workshop with QUT.
Every day, we move through places that quietly shape how we live - where we walk, sit, meet others, or simply feel at ease. It might be a shaded bench, a wide footpath, a friendly park, or a bus stop that’s just not too far away. These small environmental elements can make a big difference to how enjoyable, safe, and connected our daily routines feel.
This workshop is an opportunity to reflect on those everyday places—and to have your voice heard. A team of researchers from QUT and ACU is running a friendly, interactive workshop to better understand how people experience the spaces around them. You’ll come away with a fresh lens on everyday places — why some work well, and others don’t — and how researchers and designers are trying to improve them.
What works well? What gets in the way? What makes a place feel comfortable or frustrating?
There are no wrong answers— just your experience.
The presenters are a QUT–ACU Interdisciplinary Ageing Research Team which brings together experts in the built environment, ageing studies, engineering, law and communication. The team works with older adults as partners — not just participants — to ensure that research outcomes are grounded in everyday experience and can lead to meaningful social change.
This is a free session. Light refreshments will be provided.
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