D4L: Exploring Design for Longevity

Exploring Design for Longevity

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

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What if living longer meant living better—more creatively, meaningfully, and connected to others?D4L: Exploring Design for Longevity invites readers to rethink aging not as decline, but as a design opportunity. As longer lives reshape how we work, learn, and plan, traditional age-based models of retirement and aging no longer reflect lived reality. This book introduces Design for Longevity (D4L)—a human-centered, systems-oriented approach to imagining and shaping purposeful life journeys across evolving life stages. At the heart of the book is the D4L Unclock Framework, a flexible design tool that reimagines time beyond linear timelines. It explores three pillars—longevity, service, and system—through the lenses of design, technology, and society. The resulting relationships help readers uncover connections between personal well-being, social infrastructure, and long-term planning. Rather than prescribing fixed solutions, it encourages reflection, exploration, and adaptive thinking over time.Blending personal stories, design research, and real-world projects from MIT, IDEO, and global collaborators, Sheng-Hung Lee presents practical frameworks, tools, and case studies—from Longevity Planning Blocks to LongevityTech cities and phygital experiences. Written for designers, researchers, educators, students, and anyone curious about living longer with intention, D4L offers inspiration and guidance for designing lives, communities, and systems that honor longevity as one of the defining opportunities of our time.This book is a open access book.

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-11-22
Mått:155 x 235 x undefined mm
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:225
Förlag:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN:9783032158499

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Sheng-Hung Lee is a designer and Ph.D. researcher at MIT AgeLab and Board Director at IDSA (Industrial Designers Society of America). He is inspired by multiple domains of knowledge and perspectives, and he thrives on creating value on multi-disciplinary teams while working at IDEO and Continuum. He is trained as an industrial designer and electrical engineer, and his approach to problem-solving is influenced by his passion for how design and technology impact and can be integrated into society. He has been invited to be a jury for international design competitions including International Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) and Golden Pin Design Award. Lee graduated with a dual Master’s degree (Hon.) at MIT Integrated Design & Management and the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Currently, he pursues Ph.D. in Human Behavior and Service Design at MIT. He co-lectures for the MIT graduate course and serves as Adjunct Associate Professor at Shih Chien University.

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Innehållsförteckning

Introduction.- Longevity Economics.- Service-driven Experience.- Design for Longevity.- Service Encounter.- Research Methodology.- Qualitative Approach.- Quantitative Approach.- Tangible Artifacts: Longevity Planning Blocks (LPBs).- Experimental Design.- Tech-based Service Experiment.- Touch-based Service Experiment.- Pre- and Post-Experiment Surveys.- Semi-structure Interview.- Observation and Fieldwork Notes.- Photos or Videos Documentation.- Data Analysis.- Data Synthesizing and Learning.- What is Design for Longevity (D4L).- Learning from Failure.- Conclusion.