The DBA Inclusive Design Challenge 2010, the UK flagship of the Helen Hamlyn Centre’s Challenge Workshops programme, held its tenth awards night at the Royal College of Art on 4 March. More...
Three researchers from the Helen Hamlyn Centre participated in an international expert seminar at St Catherine’s College, Kobe, Japan, in January 2010 alongside academics from the Oxford Institute of Ageing and Japanese universities. More...
Rama Gheerawo has been named Deputy Director of the RCA Helen Hamlyn Centre as part of a move to strengthen the centre’s management structure. More...
Two Helen Hamlyn Research Associates, Catherine Greene and Claudia Dutson, exhibited as part of the Worktech09 conference at the British Library, which explored the impact of new technology on workplace design. More...
An exhibition of the products developed under the All Inclusive Sarajevo project was held at the National Gallery of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo from 21-28 November and will travel to Belgrade and Zagreb in 2010. More...
The first Methods Lab this academic year was held on 10-11 November. Forty design students from seven RCA departments and friends of the Centre participated in this two-day creative workshop, which aimed to explore how to design a more inclusive world. More...
The resus:station, a redesign of the hospital resuscitation trolley is on display at the Design Museum as part of the 'Ergonomics – Real Design' exhibition, running until 14 March 2010. More...
Leading designer Patricia Moore, an international pioneer of inclusive design, made a rare appearance at the Royal College of Art on Monday 9 November 2009 to speak at the opening event of The Methods Lab, a two-day workshop for RCA students. More...
Six projects have been shortlisted for this year's Challenge. The theme for 2010 is Active Ageing – designing for our future selves, and looks at the challenges faced by people to remain active as they grow older. More...
The Helen Hamlyn Centre ran a 48 Hour Inclusive Design Challenge at the Seoul Design Olympiad on 12 -14 October at the invitation of the Seoul Design Foundation and The British Council, Korea. More...
The Helen Hamlyn Centre, Trinity Haus at Trinity College Dublin and the Centre for Excellence in Universal Design (CEUD) at the National Disability Authority hosted a 24 Hour Universal Design Challenge in Dublin from 6-7 November as part of IDI Design Week. More...
Ten years of collaborative projects between new graduates of the Royal College of Art and industry partners across the European Union on the Helen Hamlyn Research Associates programme were featured in a major exhibition called CLOSEUP this autumn, held at the RCA as part of the London Design Festival 2009. More...
The Helen Hamlyn Centre held its second Forum on the Future of Surgery on 12 June 2009. This high-level think-tank at the RCA brought together 25 experts from the worlds of medicine, science, design, engineering, management, marketing and research to explore how the patient journey through surgery can be improved. More...
A pioneering new system called Pathfinder, designed by Helen Hamlyn Research Associate David Sweeney to help visually impaired people find their way around public space, has received international recognition for its innovative approach. More...
The Helen Hamlyn Centre at the Royal College of Art celebrated its tenth anniversary on 18 June 2009 with a party for 100 collaborators, opinion formers, advisers and staff members at Lady Hamlyn’s Old Church Street residence in Chelsea, London. More...
Delegates from a record 29 different countries attended the Include 2009 international conference on inclusive design at the Royal College of Art, 5-8 April 2009. More...
The Helen Hamlyn Centre at the Royal College of Art has played a leading role in Design Bugs Out, a new initiative from the Department of Health, NHS Purchasing and Supply Agency and the Design Council, to deliver safer, cleaner hospitals. Design Bugs Out was unveiled to the press on 28 April 2009. More...
Matter, the Bath-based design consultancy has won the 2009 DBA Inclusive Design Challenge for its radical rethink of the cushion. The award was given at a special presentation event at the Royal College of Art on 5 March 2009. More...
The Helen Hamlyn Centre has won one of three Collaborative Project Grants given by the British Embassy in Tokyo to celebrate UK-Japan 2009, a year-long series of events held to commemorate 150 years of diplomatic relations between Japan and the UK. The award will fund a three-day Challenge Workshop in Kyoto this summer. More...
Four Royal College of Art alumni will travel to Sarajevo in May 2009 with Helen Hamlyn Centre Senior Research Fellow Julia Cassim to lead teams of designers from Bosnia Herzogovina and Croatia to work with disabled craftspeople to co-design a range of products. More...
The Helen Hamlyn Trust has generously agreed to fund a Helen Hamlyn Chair of Design at the RCA. This is the first endowed academic Chair in the history of the College. Jeremy Myerson, Director of the Helen Hamlyn Centre, has been named as the first incumbent. More...
