The Balthazar Approach: Engaging Senior Adults as Skilled Members of Intergenerational Project Teams

İn this paper the Balthazar approach is introduced, which is a projectbased series of workshops for intergenerational teams focusing on peer-to-peer sharing and learning of skills while tackling specific societal challenges. The Balthazar approach is presented as both an attempt to tackle post-retirement demotivation and isolation of senior adults and as an evolution of the participatory design tradition which consists of involving final users in particular phases of a project through co-creation sessions to collect feedback on concepts and prototypes. The Balthazar approach aims to go beyond that and to build a framework to include skilled senior adults as actual members of a team throughout all the duration of a project.