Intergenerational Digital Ideas Swap Shop

What’s on offer?

This two-hour workshop will offer a mix of in-person, online and hybrid activities to explore the idea of resilience and to share our experience of using technology to stay well and happy in our everyday lives.  The event will start with a 15-minute hybrid ‘ice-breaker’ session where those running the workshop will introduce themselves and we will set out how the morning will run.  This will be followed by a 15-minute hybrid session introducing the research that inspired us to develop this workshop.  Three short sessions of around 15 minutes will follow involving a shared task, a quiz for all ages, and an ‘ideas swap shop’ where we can share our favourite digital tech, apps and websites that support our wellbeing.  These sessions will be run in parallel but separately for participants online and in-person. A final 20-minute hybrid session will close the workshop offering opportunities for everyone to share what they have learnt.

What’s it about?

The event will explore the ways we cope with change and challenge in our everyday lives. We use the word resilience as a resource to cope with change but recognise that this may mean different things to different people. The pandemic brought change to everyone and we adopted new ways to cope during this time.  The restrictions on where we could go and who we could meet during the pandemic meant that many people used digital alternatives for everyday activities.  This event will provide a forum for us to reflect on what we learnt during the pandemic about our own resilience, how we used technology in positive ways and to share what we learnt with others.  We will be ‘swap-shopping’ ideas about our favourite apps, webpages, You Tube channels, or anything else digital that we use to help us cope or that just make us happy. (For those who were not alive in the 1970s, we used to watch a Saturday morning TV programme called ‘Multi coloured swap shop’ and apologise for this retro reference).  

Who’s leading the event?

The event will be led by a group of older volunteer co-researchers from across Scotland who have been working with academics at the University of Stirling for the past three years.  Co-leaders will be young people and volunteers from the Citadel Youth group https://citadelyouthcentre.org.uk/

Open to

The workshop will have an intergenerational focus so we are keen to engage people of different ages.  We wouldn’t recommend the workshop for children under the age of 10.

Of particular interest to

The intergenerational focus of the event means that we would encourage people to come along with friends or family members who are different ages and from different generations.

Event Booking details

People are welcome to drop in on the day if they are close to the University of Stirling.

Event booking deadline

People can book up to three days before the event.