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Julia Cassim

Selected Publications

Books
Cassim, J, (2013) Forthcoming 'From Sad Rags to Glad Rags  - the Inclusive Clothing Agenda in Textile-led Design for the Active Ageing', McCann, J. & Bryson, D. (eds),(2013) Woodhead Publishing, Cambridge, UK

Coleman, R., Clarkson, J., Dong, H. & Cassim, J. (2007) 'Design for Inclusivity,' in the series: Design for Social Responsibility, Ed. Cooper, R. Gower, Hants

Cassim, J. (l998) 'Into the Light - Museums & their Visually-Impaired Visitors.' Shogakkan, Tokyo ISBN4 -09-387243-0

Exhibition Catalogues
Cassim, J. (ed) 'Inclusion by Design' - 10 Years of the DBA Inclusive Design Challenge, The British Council, Seoul ( Korean text)

Cassim, J., Tsunoda, M. (1994) Art & the Inner Eye # 1 (1994) exhibition catalogue. (Japanese text), Nagoya City Art Museum, Japan

Book Chapters
Forthcoming: Cassim, J. (2011) 'Beyond the Touch Tour' in Dent, P (ed) Sculpture and Touch: New Studies in Sculpture series Penelope Curtis (ed), London, UK, Ashgate

Cassim, J. (2009) 'The Role of Disabled People in the Design Innovation Process' in 'Inclusive Design Workshops - User Literacy and Learning with People with Disabilities,' Ed. Tanpopo no Ye Foundation, Nara, Japan (in Japanese)

Cassim, J. (2007) 'The Touch Experience in Museums in Japan and the UK - a historical overview and the example of Access Vision' in The Power of Touch Handling Objects in Museum and Heritage Contexts, ed: Elizabeth Pye, Left Coast Press, California. ISBN 978-1-59874-303-6 hardcover ISBN 978-1-59874-304-3 paperback

Cassim, J. & Dong, H. (2003) 'The Role of the 'Critical' User in Design Innovation - examples from the Small Business Programme of the Helen Hamlyn Research Centre' in Inclusive Design - Design for the whole population, Springer Verlag

Cassim J. (2002) 'Cross-market Product & Service Innovation - the DBA Challenge Example' Chapter in Keates, S, Clarkson, J,Langdon, P & Robinson, P 'Designing for a More Inclusive World', Springer Verlag ISBN/ISSN: 1852338199

Cassim J. (l999) 'Some Reflections on Able Art and the Achievements of and Challenges facing the Able Art Movement' (Japanese text) in Toyota Able Art Forum Kara Kangaeru Able Art Movement no Kore Made - Kore Kara published by Toyota Corporation & Able Art Japan, Tokyo

Peer-reviewed Journals
Forthcoming: Cassim J & Dong H. (2010) Interdisciplinary Engagement with Inclusive Design - the Challenge Workshops Model in Coleman, R & Clarkson, J. Applied Ergonomics special issue

Dong, H. & Cassim, J. (2007) Critical User Forums for Inclusive Design in Global Ergonomics, Journal of Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Journal, Santa Monica, California, USA

Cassim, J. (2007) 'It's Not What You Do, It's the Way That You Do It' - A Designer-Centred Inclusive Design Knowledge Transfer Mechanism for Different Contexts in 'Universal Access in Human Computer Interaction. Coping with Diversity' in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4554/2007, Springer Verlag

Dong, H., Cassim, J. & Coleman, R. (2007) 'Addressing the Challenges of Inclusive Design' in Universal Access in Ambient Intelligence Environments, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol 4397/2007, Springer Verlag

Cassim, J. & Dong, H. (2005) 'DBA Design Challenge: engaging design professionals with inclusive design', ACM SIGACCESS Accessibility and Computing archive, Issue 81 (January 2005), pp3-8

Dong, H., Keates, S., Clarkson, PJ .& Cassim J. (2003), 'Universal Access. Theoretical Perspectives, Practice and Experience: 7th ERCIM International Workshop on User Interfaces for All, Paris. France, October 24-25, 2002, Revised Papers in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 2615/2003, Springer Verlag

Dong, H., Keates, S., Clarkson, PJ. & Cassim J. (2003) 'Implementing inclusive design: the discrepancy between theory and practice' in Universal access - theoretical perspectives, practice and experience, 2615, 106-117

Dong, H., Cardoso, C., Cassim, J., Keates, S. & Clarkson, P J. (2002) 'Inclusive design: Reflections on design practice', Engineering Design Centre, University of Cambridge, Technical Report CUED/C-EDC/TR118

Conference Proceedings
Forthcoming: Cassim J & Percovic N. (2011)' Harnessing Inclusivity and Co-Design methods for rebuilding cultural networks and economic transformation in Sarajevo, Bosnia Herzegovina, Proceedings of Include 2011, Royal College of Art, London, UK

Cassim J. (2010) 'Designing Effective User Interactions - examples from the Challenge Workshops,' Proceedings of the 3rd Conference of the International Association for Universal Design IAUD, Hamamatsu, Japan

Lee Y & Cassim J. (2009) How the Inclusive Design Process Enables Social Inclusion International Association of Societies of Design Research (IASDR) 18-22 October 2009, Seoul Korea

Ho D, Lee Y & Cassim J (2009) 'What if...users do not know how to be inclusive through design?' Include 2009, Royal College of Art, London , UK

Cassim J. (2008) The Challenge Workshop - a designer-friendly, cross-disciplinary knowledge transfer mechanism to promote innovative thinking in different contexts. International DMI Education Conference Design Thinking: New Challenges for Designers, Managers and Organizations 14-15 April 2008, ESSEC Business School, Cergy-Pointoise, France

Cassim J. (2007) 'It's Not what you do it's the way that you do it, the Challenge Workshop a designer-centred inclusive design knowledge transfer mechanism for different contexts, HCI International, Beijing, July 2007

Goodman J, Langdon P, Clarkson PJ & Cassim J. (2007) 'Engaging the Public in Inclusive Design' Include 2007, Royal College of Art, London, UK

Goodman J, Cassim J, Langdon P & Clarkson PJC. (2006) 'Participatory Design with Disabled People in a Designer-Centred Inclusive Design Competition,' BHCI 2006 expert workshops, Designing with Elderly for the Elderly

Cassim J. (2006) Beyond Ergonomics to Desirability -the Challenge workshop model for inclusive design knowledge transfer to designers and industry. Proceedings of the 2nd Conference of the International Association for Universal Design IAUD, Kyoto, Japan

Dong H, Cassim J & Coleman R. (2006) 'Addressing the challenges of inclusive design: a case study approach, 9th ERCIM Workshop 'User Interfaces For All' September 2006

Goodman J, Cassim J, Langdon P & Clarkson PJ. (2006) 'Participatory Design with Disabled People in a Designer-Centred Inclusive Design Competition.' 'Developing Design Methodologies for Designing for Elderly with Elderly', workshop at HCI 2006, London, UK, 11 Sept 2006

Goodman J, Langdon P, Clarkson PJC & Cassim J. (2006) 'Engaging the Public in Inclusive Design'in *Designing the Not-Quite-Yet: Ideas and Methods for Engaging the Public in a Digital Future of their Choice*, workshop at HCI 2006, London, UK, 14 Sept 2006

Dong H, Cassim J, and Coleman R. (2006) 'Addressing the Challenge of Inclusive Design: a Case Study Approach' in the 9th ERCIM Workshop 'Universal Access in Ambient Intelligence Environments', Königswinter (Bonn), Germany, 27 - 28 Sept 2006

Cassim J. (2005) Designers are Users too! - 'Attitudinal and Information Barriers to Inclusive Design within the Design Community' Include 2005, Royal College of Art, London, UK

Dong H, Cassim J and Clarkson PJ. (2005) 'Best practice of Critical User Forums', Include 2005, Royal College of Art, London, UK, 5-8 April

Dong H, Keates, S Clarkson PJ & Cassim J. (2004) ''Discounted' user research for inclusive design' in The Home and Electronic Assistive Technology, HEAT 2004, King's Manor, University of York, UK

Cassim J. (2003) 'Smart Wearables - a new frontier for inclusive design innovation', Include 2003, Royal College of Art, London, UK

Cassim J. (2002) 'Smart Textiles/Smart Wearables -Case studies in the application of conceptual design skills and mainstream fashion styling to textiles and wearables for special needs uses and environments.'in Proceedings of Easytex 2002, International Conference on Clothing & Textiles for Elderly and Disabled People, Tampere, Finland

Cassim J. (2001) The Muse Print - a cognitive aid for visually impaired museum visitors' at 'Ist International Conference on Tactile Diagrams and Maps, University of Hertfordshire, UK

Cassim J. (2001) 'The Muse Print - a new concept for raised images to be used as an interpretational aid for art collections by visually impaired museum visitors' Include 2001, Royal College of Art, London, UK

Film
The Insightful Eye' (2007) - director and producer of film on the work of three contemporary UK artists with visual impairments as a commission for the M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2007

Exhibitions
Tokyo University i-school, Tokyo, Japan 5-10 February, 2012

Kyoto University Museum, Kyoto, Japan, 16 November - 4 December 4

'Shared Innovation' at the Gallery Amu, Tokyo, Kyoto University Museum and Tokyo University iSchool (February 2012)

Trading Places - 10 Years of the DBA Inclusive Design Challenge (2010) at the Sackler Centre, Victoria & Albert Museum, London. Exhibition travelled to the Institute of Human-Centered Design, Boston, USA and Design Korea, Seoul, Korea

Gokan de Miru Kokusai Ten (2004-5) Travelling exhibition of work by six visually impaired artists at the Hayashibara Museum of Art, Okayama, Tanpopo Art Space, Nara & Gallery Artlier, Fukuoka, Japan

The Work of the HHRC (2004 & 2005) Two exhibitions to Japan on work of the HHC at Toyota Megaweb in Odaiba, Tokyo, Japan
Exhibition on DBA Design Challenge at Include (2003), Royal College of Art, London

Annual exhibitions on the work of the HHC at Mobility Roadshow (2001-5), Donington Park, Royal Highland Show, Edinburgh, UK

Echoes of the Spirit (2001-2) - Travelling exhibition of paintings, drawings and calligraphy by Japanese artists with learning disabilities at Diorama Arts Centre, London, Project Ability, Glasgow & Bolton Museum & Art Gallery. Exhibition coordinator

New Spirit of Japanese Calligraphy (2000) Richard Attenborough for Disability & the Arts, University of Leicester, Project Ability, Glasgow. Exhibition organiser. Won Japan 2001 Award

Dialogue of the Spirit (1997) Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art Access (Cognitive & Physical) Design for Exhibition, Education & Workshop Programme, Audio Guide and Raised Image Catalogue Folder.

Organiser of Exhibition of Artworks from Education Programmes at the Dulwich Picture Gallery (1996) at the Yokohama Museum of Art, Japan. Exhibition subsequently travelled to House of Lords and the major offices of Department for Education & Employment

College Women's Association of Japan 37th, 38th & 39th Print Shows, Tokyo.( 1996-98). Devised special display and materials for visually-impaired visitors.
Art & the Inner Eye #1 (1994)- Nagoya City Art Museum, Japan. An exhibition of contemporary sculpture, painting and photography designed for a visually-impaired audience. Co-curator, wrote and designed catalogue (combined Braille, large-print, raised image and colour reproductions) and display. Won College Women's Association of Japan 20th Anniversary Award.

Catalogue Essays
Cassim J. (2001) One may have good eyes and see nothing' in 'Another Way of Seeing catalogue for 'Another Way of Seeing exhibition at Art Sonje Center, Seoul, South Korea, Korean Association of Blind Artists, Seoul (English & Korean text)

Cassim J. (2001) Image Ability'in Adorn/Equip catalogue for Adorn/Equip travelling exhibition at City Gallery Leicester (available online www.adornequip.co.uk) pp 24-29, City Gallery Leicester

Cassim J. (2000) New Spirit of Japanese Calligraphy catalogue for New Spirit of Japanese Calligraphy exhibition at the Richard Attenborough for Disability & the Arts, University of Leicester & Project Ability, Glasgow. Tanpopo no Ye Foundation, Nara, Japan (cf.exhibitions)

Cassim J. (1997) raised images and audio guide for exhibition catalogue for Dialogue of the Spirit exhibition at Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art (Japanese text - bilingual guide), Able Arts Japan, Tokyo (cf. exhibitions)

Cassim J. (1994) Art & the Inner Eye # 1 (1994) exhibition catalogue. (Japanese text), Nagoya City Art Museum, Japan