ABSTRACT
The baby boomer population is approaching late life and will have different needs and
expectations for their aging experience than previous generations. A team of two faculty
and two graduate students at a major American university set out to develop a
transdisciplinary methodology to support the design of a transgenerational toilet that
would be usable by toddlers and their grandparents alike. Documented herein is their
approach to this problem, and the resulting design which shifts paradigms of toilet use.
In addition, this experiment represents a collaborative experience that transcends
boundaries between design research and design practice