MMU Design Lab Student Gemma Latham and two of her
colleagues, visited Chorlton Good Neighbours to report back on their 'creating
an age-friendly city' project. They talked to people atr the coffee morning on
26th April and showed them Annabel's lamp. This is a visual representation of
the concerns and memories of older people in Chorlton they had talked to.
They are working with the City Council Valuing Older People
team to provide a model of community engagement. Gemma herself will be
finishing off her project with an event on the 12th May at St Clement's where
she be asking people to donate memories that will be woiven on to a memorial
bench in Beech Road Park - "taking memories and turning them into
yarn" - or another way of looking at it - turning Yarns into Yarn!
