Societies are aging. This means the older population is not only growing in size, but also in proportion. Apart from this, generations are changing. The elderly of the future will in all probability not have the same needs as the elderly of today. These changes lead to new challenges for society and ask for new solutions spatially and socially. There is a lack of understanding how these factors will influence our daily lives. Which impact will this have on aspects like safety or social cohesion? How will public space look like and how will it feel to live in a society with a lot of elderly and highly developed technology? Currently the public space of neighbourhoods in general and in Nieuw Waldeck in particular, does not anticipate this phenomenon of aging and the unknown needs of the elderly of the future. This thesis aimed to integrate the human perspective of imagining the future neighbourhood, while spatial plans are made for the neighbourhood. With the purpose of empathizing all the stakeholders involved with the future elderly residents of Nieuw Waldeck, so they are able to create solutions which meet the residents’ needs. Observations, interviews and a literature study were done to gain insight in the current context. After ideating and additional literature research the concept for future life stories was created. Prototypes were assessed and evaluated multiple times by the stakeholders. By constantly validating and iterating the concept with the stakeholders, it was improved and adjusted to the needs of the stakeholders. “I live in.. the future” was created as a toolkit to share experiences of future residents with the stakeholders involved in planning the restructuring of the public space of the neighbourhood. The carrier of the toolkit contains different life stories of different future residents about their daily life in the neighbourhood. This carrier is presented in a session in which the stakeholders get a clear introduction and are individually immersed into one of the residents’ perspective by the carrier. This is followed by an open conversation about the stories and the stakeholders’ personal reflection on them. Evaluation tests revealed that all the stakeholders were able to empathize with the future elderly residents. The toolkit can be used as a conversation starter between the stakeholders about the future of their neighbourhood, since everything was easily comprehensible for everybody regardless of their background. The urban planners can use the outcomes of the session(s) to create spatial advices and plans, incorporating solutions which meet the residents’ needs. This toolkit can be integrated into the process of making plans for the public space of neighbourhoods.