Intergenerational Contact Zones

Dr. Matthew Kaplan is Professor of Intergenerational Programs and Aging in the Department of Agricultural Economics, Sociology, and Education at Pennsylvania State University. He is an affiliate member of the Penn State Center for Healthy Aging and core faculty member of the Comparative and International Education (CIED) Dual-Title Graduate Degree Program. Dr. Leng Leng Thang is Associate Professor and Head of Department of Japanese Studies, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore. She is also is co-director of the Next Age Institute. Dr. Mariano Sánchez is Associate Professor of Sociology and inaugural head of the Macrosad Chair in Intergenerational Studies at the University of Granada in Spain. Professor Sánchez is as well International Affiliate at the Center for Healthy Aging (Pennsylvania State University), and director of the Intergenerational Spaces Lab. Dr. Jaco Hoffman, DPhil (Oxon), is socio-gerontologist and leader of the Optentia Research Focus programme: Ageing and Generational Dynamics in Africa (AGenDA) at North-West University, South Africa as well as James Martin Senior Research Fellow in the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing at the University of Oxford, UK.

Introduction

Part I. Generation/Regeneration of Community Life

Chapter 1. Culture as Animator of Intergenerational Gathering Places

Robert H. McNulty

Chapter 2. Our Community, Our Traditional Food: Around the Fire as an Intergenerational Contact Zone

Shingaira Chigeza, Nicole Claasen and Vera Roos

Chapter 3. Finding Fertile Ground in Libraries for Intergenerational Dance

Yvonne Ng

Chapter 4. Transforming a barn into an ‘intergenerational planning zone"

Matthew Kaplan, Suzanna Windon, and Evan Zavada

Chapter 5. City Cycling Spaces for Welcoming and Engaging All Ages

Tim Jones and Ben Spencer

Chapter 6. Playful Perspectives and Everyday Spaces: Imagining a Bus Stop as an Intergenerational Contact Zone

Jason Danely

Part II. Parks and Recreation

Chapter 7. Connecting generations in Chinese urban parks

Patricia O’Neill

Chapter 8. Urban Public Parks: Magnets for Social Inclusion and Engagement across Generations

Cláudia Azevedo

Chapter 9. Intergenerational Gardening on Urban Rooftops: The Example of the "Play and Grow" Program in Hong Kong

Tanja Sobko and Louise Chawla

Chapter 10. Forests as Intergenerational Contact Zones: Teaching About and Experiencing Forests Through Historical Interpretation

Sanford S. Smith and Matthew S. Kaplan

Chapter 11. Sowing Connections in a Community Garden: An Intergenerational Partnership between Young Adult Cancer Survivors and Master Gardeners

Renate M. Winkels, Rick Artrip, Maegan Tupinio and Daniel R. George

Part III. Education Settings

Chapter 12. Schools as Intergenerational Contact Zones: The Cleveland Case

Catherine Whitehouse, Peter Whitehouse, & Mariano Sánchez

Chapter 13. College Classrooms as Intergenerational Contact Zones

Joann M. Montepare and Mark Sciegaj

Chapter 14. Adding Excitement and Relevance to Second Language Learning: Imagining a School-based English Language Center as an Intergenerational Contact Zone

Alan Lai

Part IV. Residential Settings and Family Life

Chapter 15. Intergenerational Living in Cohousing Communities

Lisia Zheng

Chapter 16. Cocktails in Care Homes: An intergenerational strategy for bridging the care home – community divide

Phoebe Grudzinskas and Susan Langford

Chapter 17. Senior Housing as a Community Hub for Intergenerational Interaction

Nancy Henkin and Taryn Patterson

Chapter 18. The Japanese teapot: Objects at home that possess Intergenerational Contact Zone generating properties

Yoshika Yamamoto and Leng Leng Thang

Chapter 19. The Virtual Environment as Intergenerational Contact Zone: Play through Digital Gaming

Eyu Zang

Part V. Social Development: National/International Contexts

Chapter 20. Multigenerational Cyclical Support System: Programs in Japan for "Designing a Sustainable Society through Intergenerational Co-creation."

Masataka Kuraoka

Chapter 21. Exploring Design Principles and Strategies for Intergenerational Places in Australia: Revealing Opportunities and Potential in Beach and Public Pool Settings.

Kah Mun Tham, Diane Jones and Ann Quinlan; Architect

Chapter 22. Intergenerational Contact Zones in Contested Places and Spaces: The Olive Tree as Entity and Symbol

Suzanne Hammad

Part VI. Methods

Chapter 23. A Toolkit for Intergenerational Contact Zones Application

Mariano Sánchez and Philip B. Stafford

Chapter 24. Intergenerational programs and intergenerational contact zones: Aligning notions of ‘good quality’

Mariano Sánchez, Pilar Díaz, Andrés Rodríguez and Rosa Bonachela

Chapter 25. Everyone Can Make a Map: Multigenerational and Intergenerational Explorations of Community

Philip B. Stafford

Conclusion