Hello to all
Many of you on this List already know me, after nearly two decades
exchanging views with you. You know, among other things, that following
over 40 years in exile in Canada, I have recently decided to come and
resettle back in my country of birth, Rwanda. Here, I intend to start a
seniors’ flower garden village, where both aging Rwandans, like me, and
aging foreigners from all over the world who would wish and are fit and
capable, would come and stay with me, all of us growing flowers together.
I thought sharing this idea also to the world design community, my
community to which I belong since the last 47 years. You all are welcome
to contribute in a way or in another to shaping and, eventually, to the
implementation of the idea.
I thought some PhD design students could take the opportunity as a learning
ground, from where they would work on research questions raised in the line
of their respective interests. Questions may be related to any aspect of
the specific artifact I propose: a flower garden for and by world seniors.
Or questions related to the Rwandan context, where design research
endeavors in the domain I propose haven’t started yet. And also, research
questions pertaining to the particular users I envisage: the Rwandan and
foreign aging, yet still active seniors and their varied social local
surroundings.
This public call is still at the early maturation of the idea. Therefore
interested persons can join, either on or off list, and we all together
will explore further how to frame it in a more applicable way, in order to
meet both the academic requirements, as well, hopefully, proposing concrete
solutions towards the realization of the proposed artifact.
Thank you and best regards.
Francois-X. N.I.NSENGA,
Independent Researcher in Product and Service Development
Kigali, Rwanda
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