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Abstract. This paper documents a design research collaboration that intertwines with a collective project to develop and experiment alternative social arrangements for growing old. The paper presents some of the social media concepts developed in collaboration with the community and traces their role and challenges in sustaining the practices of the community of active seniors interested in growing old together.