The DBA Inclusive Design Challenge 2010 is co-sponsored by Sanctuary Care and the Department of Work and Pensions. The theme this year is Active Ageing.
Since the launch of the Challenge in September last year, professional design teams drawn from member firms of the Design Business Association have been developing new products and services that address the needs of older and disabled people.
Four finalists presented their projects at the RCA at an awards night on 4 March 2010, the tenth in the series. Guest speaker is Emma Soames, Roving Editor of SAGA magazine.
To celebrate ten years of the DBA Inclusive Design Challenge, the Helen Hamlyn Centre is also organising a special exhibition at the Sackler Centre for arts education at the V&A in spring 2010, sponsored by the Department of Work and Pensions.
This exhibition, entitled Trading Places: Ten Year of the DBA Inclusive Design Challenge at the RCA 2000/10, will be held from 19 April to 16 May 2010. A special creative industries night will be held at the Sackler Centre on 27 April in partnership with the DBA and V&A to celebrate the show.
The Trading Places exhibition will then travel to Boston's Institute for Human-Centred Design in autumn 2010 for a showing before an American audience.
