About Us

The Re-Imagining Age Project is a national initiative designed to help audiences of all ages explore different aspects of aging and consider the impacts of the coming longevity revolution. The initiative has multiple components, including Age in America [more »] and Life Stories, a video series that explores issues and experiences related to Age in America.

Re-Imagining Age engages cultural, academic and service organizations indeveloping public programs that stimulate new insights and questions about experiences of aging. Through local programs and online communications participants explore the realities and potentialities of aging from both historical and contemporary perspectives.

• Museums participating in Re-Imagining Age are re-thinking and re-presenting collections in relation to the theme of "age."
• Libraries are organizing information and programs to stimulate insights and dialogue on aging.
• Educational institutions and service organizations are developing complementary activities that reinforce public inquiry on aging.

Re-Imagining Age brings together specialists from many disciplines — history, art, literature, political science, psychology, medicine and biology — to work with cultural institutions in designing public programs that challenge assumptions and stereotypes about aging, provoke new thinking about who is "old," and foster discussion about longevity in relation to the home, the workplace and the public sphere.

Re-Imagining Age uses new media to coordinate and link local activities and to promote a national and cross-cultural discussion about the coming age wave.

Initial planning for Re-Imagining Age was funded, in part, by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Petersmeyer Family Foundation.