Conversation:
The Architecture of Aging
Erik Vrieling and Marisa Morán Jahn
Salt Beyoğlu
December 9, 2025 19.00
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Still from Where We Grow Older (2023)
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Following the screening of Where We Grow Older, architect Erik Vrieling and artist Marisa Morán Jahn will be in a conversation on recent approaches to housing, aging, and care in contemporary cities.
Vrieling will expand on The Architecture of Ageing (2024), a collective research volume that examines exponential population aging as a spatial and social transformation. Spanning holistic frameworks that link social, technological, and regulatory contexts, the publication traces a shift from dependency toward autonomy and participation supported by inclusive design. Drawing on initiatives such as Who Cares? and cases from the Netherlands, Korea, and the UK, the research addresses the limits of existing welfare systems while highlighting future-oriented design cultures and collaborations that connect urban form with shared infrastructures of care.
In dialogue with these approaches, Jahn will talk about her long-term collaboration with domestic workers, examining care at the scale of everyday life. Working with the National Domestic Workers Alliance, her projects—developed under the umbrella of CareForce—include collective tools co-created with nannies, housekeepers, and caregivers, and explore how care, migration, and labor intersect with housing and urban conditions. This work also extends to Carehaus, an ongoing co-housing initiative co-founded with architect Rafi Segal and developer Ernst Valery, of which the development is discussed in the documentary Where We Grow Older.
Bringing together Vrieling’s research on urban design cultures and Jahn’s practice of care-based organizing, the conversation will explore how architecture, policy, and collective action can open new possibilities for aging in place and the redistribution of care.
Organized as part of Forms of Care, this free-admission talk is open to everyone. The program will be held in English.
Erik Vrieling is an architect whose work bridges spatial design with strategic and process-oriented insight. He studied Architecture at Delft University of Technology and completed post-master programs in Design Management and Business Administration at Eindhoven University of Technology. His practice focuses on the interplay between societal pressures—such as urban densification, elderly housing, and the need for sustainable, scalable building production—and the disciplinary expertise required in urban planning, architecture, and construction methodology. Since 2005, he has worked at de Architekten Cie. on large-scale, inner-city projects, combining design, research, and project governance in collaborative structures.
Marisa Morán Jahn is an artist whose work highlights the potential of art as a form of social practice and explores civic spaces and the transformative power of play. Working across drawing, public art, and architectural-urban scales, Jahn collaborates with new immigrant families and low-wage workers. Her initiatives have reached wide audiences through platforms such as the Tribeca Film Festival, the United Nations, the Obama White House, The New Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, the Guggenheim Museum, and international outlets like The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Univision Global, BBC, and CNN. She serves as a Senior Researcher at MIT, her alma mater, and as the Director of Integrated Design at Parsons School of Design, The New School.
Following the screening of Where We Grow Older, architect Erik Vrieling and artist Marisa Morán Jahn will be in a conversation on recent approaches to housing, aging, and care in contemporary cities.
Vrieling will expand on The Architecture of Ageing (2024), a collective research volume that examines exponential population aging as a spatial and social transformation. Spanning holistic frameworks that link social, technological, and regulatory contexts, the publication traces a shift from dependency toward autonomy and participation supported by inclusive design. Drawing on initiatives such as Who Cares? and cases from the Netherlands, Korea, and the UK, the research addresses the limits of existing welfare systems while highlighting future-oriented design cultures and collaborations that connect urban form with shared infrastructures of care.
In dialogue with these approaches, Jahn will talk about her long-term collaboration with domestic workers, examining care at the scale of everyday life. Working with the National Domestic Workers Alliance, her projects—developed under the umbrella of CareForce—include collective tools co-created with nannies, housekeepers, and caregivers, and explore how care, migration, and labor intersect with housing and urban conditions. This work also extends to Carehaus, an ongoing co-housing initiative co-founded with architect Rafi Segal and developer Ernst Valery, of which the development is discussed in the documentary Where We Grow Older.
Bringing together Vrieling’s research on urban design cultures and Jahn’s practice of care-based organizing, the conversation will explore how architecture, policy, and collective action can open new possibilities for aging in place and the redistribution of care.
Organized as part of Forms of Care, this free-admission talk is open to everyone. The program will be held in English.
Erik Vrieling is an architect whose work bridges spatial design with strategic and process-oriented insight. He studied Architecture at Delft University of Technology and completed post-master programs in Design Management and Business Administration at Eindhoven University of Technology. His practice focuses on the interplay between societal pressures—such as urban densification, elderly housing, and the need for sustainable, scalable building production—and the disciplinary expertise required in urban planning, architecture, and construction methodology. Since 2005, he has worked at de Architekten Cie. on large-scale, inner-city projects, combining design, research, and project governance in collaborative structures.
Marisa Morán Jahn is an artist whose work highlights the potential of art as a form of social practice and explores civic spaces and the transformative power of play. Working across drawing, public art, and architectural-urban scales, Jahn collaborates with new immigrant families and low-wage workers. Her initiatives have reached wide audiences through platforms such as the Tribeca Film Festival, the United Nations, the Obama White House, The New Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, the Guggenheim Museum, and international outlets like The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Univision Global, BBC, and CNN. She serves as a Senior Researcher at MIT, her alma mater, and as the Director of Integrated Design at Parsons School of Design, The New School.
