ABSTRACT
In an inverse image of top-down strategies of regenerative urban change and renewal, Ageing Facilities, has been operating its practice of small-scale interventions from the bottom-up, from the ground level of local pensioner groups, clubs and networks. Ageing Facilities is an informal creative/research initiative that has been attempting to unsettle this retrospective and passive stereotyping of older age through a cultural practice of small-scale urban interventions. Multi-Use Games Area (MUGA) is the pragmatic dimension of the intervention, as the act of intervention offers up unexpected benefits and functional implications for the class when it returns to dance in the church hall as usual the following Monday morning, broaching the question of the interventions own legacy. Reality Orientation an outmoded technique that applies equally to the urban interventions described above, as each intervention works to actively shift retrospective modes of engagement with the elderly into the here and now.
