Pop Place Director Maxwell Hartt participated in a book-talking-to-book dialogue with Prof. Christina Clark-Kazak hosted by the LIFE Research Institute at the University of Ottawa. The event, “Rethinking Assumptions About Aging: A Dialogue Across Immigration and Play”, covered ageism, play, chronological vs social age, and much, much more.
The two books in question were Dr. Hartt’s Aging Playfully and Dr. Clark-Kazak Age and Immigration Policy in Canada – both from UBC Press.
Pop Place Director Maxwell Hartt was quoted in The Globe & Mail about his research on shrinking and aging cities.
Tthe article is “Vanishing Points” by Globe Architecture Critic Alex Bozikovic.
Pop Place PhD Candidate Janine Dodge and her colleagues Jessica Gimenes Martins and Belisa Pereira have published a new article “Training Older Adults as Advocates for Intergenerational Play: The Guardians of Play Program in Brazil” in the Journal of Intergenerational Relationships!
You can read the article here [if behind a paywall, you can read the accepted post-print here].
Congratulations, Janine et al.!
Abstract: Intergenerational initiatives often involve older adults as mentors or companions for children. Less common are programs that position older adults themselves as the primary participants while recognizing play as meaningful across the life course. This case report describes Guardians of Play, a Brazilian training program that first engages older adults in reconnecting with play and then prepares them to advocate for children’s opportunities to play within their families and communities. Drawing on implementation with more than 800 older adults, the case illustrates an approach to advocacy-based intergenerational programming that positions older adults as central actors in creating the time, space and cultural permission that support play across generations.
Pop Place Director Maxwell Hartt returned to his home province of Nova Scotia to give a book talk about Aging Playfully: Reimagining the Possibilities of Age-Friendly Community Planning at Dalhousie University. The hometown crowd was engaged and boisterous. It was great to see family, old friends, new colleagues, and meet some folks from the community.
The Pop Place is thrilled to welcome a new master’s student – Emily Diverty!
Emily is an MPL Candidate in the School of Urban and Regional Planning at Queen’s University. She has a Bachelor of Community Development with Honours from Acadia University. Emily is working on the Student Housing Observatory. She interested in studentification and how this impacts community well-being and social cohesion, both for students and residents of university towns.
Welcome Emily!
Pop Place Director returned to his alma mater (PhD, 2016) University of Waterloo to give a book talk about Aging Playfully: Reimagining the Possibilities of Age-Friendly Community Planning. It was great to see old friends and mentors, new colleagues, and meet some folks from the community.
This homecoming was particularly fun as it was homecoming weekend in Waterloo!
Pop Place Director Maxwell Hartt joined Pop Place Alum Ellory Vincent (now a planner at JL Richards) and Tim Chadder (recently retired from JL Richards – congrats!) to present their work on the Arnprior, ON age-friendly plan at the Ontario Professional Planners Institute conference in Blue Mountain, ON.
Great work, great audience, and possibly most importantly, a great opportunity to bring the Hartt & Vincent team back together again!
Pop Place MPL Candidate Tammy Ma crushed her presentation at the Ontario Professional Planners Institute conference at Blue Mountain, ON. Tammy’s presentation was titled “A Matter of Life and Death in Great Canadian Cities”.
Congrats Tammy!
The Pop Place is thrilled to welcome its newest member – Natali Keckesova!
Natali is an MPL Candidate in the School of Urban and Regional Planning at Queen’s University. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Human Geography, Environmental Geography, and GIS from the University of Toronto. Natali is interested in how to implement efficient and equitable solutions to urban problems within today’s political climate. She hopes to explore this topic by examining ageing and shrinking cities. Natali will be primarily working on the GOLDEN Urbanisms project.
Welcome!!
This summer, Pop Place member Mary Smida returned to Canada’s Northern Territories to continue her archival research and to explore all that Northern Canada has to offer. Her blog post can be read here.
