Aging together: social media and the practices of coordinating everyday life in the project of an association of active seniors

Based in Helsinki (Finland) the Active Seniors Association has embarked on a collective project of organizing their future everyday life based on neighbourly help. Their project is quite substantial, as it includes both the construction of an apartment building for the community with the corresponding infrastructure as well as the continuous development and configuration of an active community life with shared practices amongst its inhabitants. Drawing upon their experiences and the authors’ design research collaboration with the association in the design of social media infrastructures to support the coordinating everyday life, we