OPTIC: Understanding Older people’s PerspecTives and Imaginaries of Climate change: emplaced creativity to improve environments for healthy ageing. 

Older people’s living, working and leisure environments are essential to health and wellbeing. Climate change is altering these environments. It is essential we understand climate change perspectives, behaviours, and future visions to improve management for health, wellbeing and sustainability. 

OPTIC uses creative methods to explore everyday issues with people who use five diverse environments in South Wales. During intergenerational workshops, participants will co-create stories of climate change that will be re-told collectively in a bilingual, accessible visual comic. 

The comic will be shared as hardcopies, via a website, social media and two interactive exhibitions. The comics will stimulate discussion in a shared learning event, where older people, policymakers, businesses, and charities will together design guidelines for environments of ageing that better address older people’s climate change perspectives and behaviours.