VIAS | Viseu InterAge stories: Developing an app to foster social inclusion and healthy lifestyles

Abstract

VIAS | Viseu InterAge Stories aims to promote communication, understanding and collaboration between different generations, deepening the sense of belonging to the city and developing a share vision of their identity. Having the city of Viseu as the study case setting, the project aims to develop and evaluate a collaborative app that promotes interaction between generations and the practice of outdoors healthy lifestyle. Inhabitants will be invited to create collaboratively, while touring and interacting with and about the various places of reference, stories about their city, from the memories and reminiscences of the elderly to the meanings of the present and the expectations ofchildren and youth concerning those same sites. We present the referential framework that supports the development of VIAS, discussing both its theoretical foundations and the methodological approach.