Lifelines

Exhibition photography of Lifelines: Rethinking Ageing Across Generations at Science Gallery London, May - August 2025. Photograph by George Torode.

Lifelines: Rethinking Ageing Across Generations was an exhibition reflecting co-produced research into narratives of ageing at Science Gallery London. As Producer of the exhibition, I worked with Health Humanities researcher Dr Martina Zimmerman and her team to create a visitor experience inviting reflection and participation for the audience. The exhibition, drawing on the research project, sought to reframe ageing ageing as a lifelong process, rather than a phase of decline that happens towards the end of life.

Offering an open space for conversations across generations and complete with film, objects, photographs and animations highlighting our shared human experiences, Lifelines prompts us to address how inequalities impact health and quality of life in older age, and to consider what we can learn from one another. It assures us that together, we can creatively rethink ageing, embracing and preparing for the challenges, joys, and surprises of getting older.

“I think it would be much better to try and talk about enjoyable ageing, happy ageing […] What we don't hear about […] is that there is also joy in it […] We ought to have a society in which elderly people are given the opportunity to live their final years to the full.”

Participant, age 73

Lifelines: Rethinking Ageing Across Generations was a collaboration between The Sciences of Ageing and the Culture of Youth (SAACY) and Science Gallery London. SAACY was a research programme based in the English Department and the Centre for the Humanities and Health at King’s College London and funded by a UK Research and Innovation Future Leaders Fellowship

Lifelines featured the creative work of live illustrator and cartoonist Camille Aubry, artist and facilitator Federica Ciotti and Film Production Company Reuben & Co.