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.

• IntroductionPart I. Generation/Regeneration of Community LifeChapter 1. Culture as Animator of Intergenerational Gathering PlacesRobert H. McNultyChapter 2. Our Community, Our Traditional Food: Around the Fire as an Intergenerational Contact ZoneShingaira Chigeza, Nicole Claasen and Vera RoosChapter 3. Finding Fertile Ground in Libraries for Intergenerational Dance Yvonne NgChapter 4. Transforming a barn into an ‘intergenerational planning zone"Matthew Kaplan, Suzanna Windon, and Evan ZavadaChapter 5. City Cycling Spaces for Welcoming and Engaging All AgesTim Jones and Ben SpencerChapter 6. Playful Perspectives and Everyday Spaces: Imagining a Bus Stop as an Intergenerational Contact ZoneJason DanelyPart II. Parks and RecreationChapter 7. Connecting generations in Chinese urban parksPatricia O’NeillChapter 8. Urban Public Parks: Magnets for Social Inclusion and Engagement across GenerationsCláudia AzevedoChapter 9. Intergenerational Gardening on Urban Rooftops: The Example of the "Play and Grow" Program in Hong KongTanja Sobko and Louise ChawlaChapter 10. Forests as Intergenerational Contact Zones: Teaching About and Experiencing Forests Through Historical InterpretationSanford S. Smith and Matthew S. KaplanChapter 11. Sowing Connections in a Community Garden: An Intergenerational Partnership between Young Adult Cancer Survivors and Master GardenersRenate M. Winkels, Rick Artrip, Maegan Tupinio and Daniel R. George Part III. Education SettingsChapter 12. Schools as Intergenerational Contact Zones: The Cleveland CaseCatherine Whitehouse, Peter Whitehouse, & Mariano SánchezChapter 13. College Classrooms as Intergenerational Contact Zones Joann M. Montepare and Mark SciegajChapter 14. Adding Excitement and Relevance to Second Language Learning: Imagining a School-based English Language Center as an Intergenerational Contact ZoneAlan LaiPart IV. Residential Settings and Family LifeChapter 15. Intergenerational Living in Cohousing CommunitiesLisia ZhengChapter 16. Cocktails in Care Homes: An intergenerational strategy for bridging the care home – community dividePhoebe Grudzinskas and Susan LangfordChapter 17. Senior Housing as a Community Hub for Intergenerational InteractionNancy Henkin and Taryn PattersonChapter 18. The Japanese teapot: Objects at home that possess Intergenerational Contact Zone generating properties Yoshika Yamamoto and Leng Leng ThangChapter 19. The Virtual Environment as Intergenerational Contact Zone: Play through Digital GamingEyu ZangPart V. Social Development: National/International ContextsChapter 20. Multigenerational Cyclical Support System: Programs in Japan for "Designing a Sustainable Society through Intergenerational Co-creation."Masataka KuraokaChapter 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; ArchitectChapter 22. Intergenerational Contact Zones in Contested Places and Spaces: The Olive Tree as Entity and SymbolSuzanne HammadPart VI. MethodsChapter 23. A Toolkit for Intergenerational Contact Zones ApplicationMariano Sánchez and Philip B. StaffordChapter 24. Intergenerational programs and intergenerational contact zones: Aligning notions of ‘good quality’Mariano Sánchez, Pilar Díaz, Andrés Rodríguez and Rosa BonachelaChapter 25. Everyone Can Make a Map: Multigenerational and Intergenerational Explorations of CommunityPhilip B. StaffordConclusion

"The case studies of ICZs provoke much needed information-sharing and mutual learning for practitioners, community-builders, policymakers, planners, designers, and researchers across boundaries and borders. It is a timely and generative read, offering tangible insights for various audiences currently imagining and building those intergenerational communities and societies many of us desperately want and need…I urge practitioners and academics from these disciplines to read this book and contribute to core learnings on the physical, political, and institutional components of the ICZ framework." – Book Review by Meghan Joy, Concordia University, in Anthropology and Aging, Journal of the Association for Aging and Gerontology, Vol 41, No 1 (2021)