DBA Inclusive Design Challenge 2006/7

Shortlisted entries

Loadall / Creactive

Many people find lifting heavy or awkward loads from the boot of a car difficult. Creactive Design aims to design a cost-effective and easy-to-use device that will eliminate the need for bending and lifting while transporting heavy goods into and out of cars.

Lugga / Rodd Industrial Design

Lugga is an extra pair of hands, that re-distributes loads away from the hands and wrists providing extra comfort for a longer period of time. Lugga is a simple product that will benefit everyone from people suffering with weak grip, the busy metro shopper struggling with bags on the tube, parents shopping with awkward children or anyone that needs an extra pair of hands.

Free from Falls / Seymourpowell

The Free from Falls system was developed through design research focused on the area of preventative rehabilitation ‘Pre-hab’ carried out by health professionals with potential falls patients. Wearable comfortable, reassuring and unobtrusive, the system provides the wearer with an extra level of awareness about their movements, warning for risky situations and empowerment to continue developing their exercise and awareness with confidence when not with a health professional.

Talk Pad / Uniform

By exploring emergent and unconventional methods of communication in use in popular culture and using the insight gained, we will develop learning aids to improve the social and communication skills and literacy levels in children and young adults with special needs.

Go Steady / Wolff Olins

Go Steady is a new language of mobility. In professional care environments, it is an alert, calling for care and vigilance from those nearby. In the world at large, it is an awareness campaign and kitemark system designed to make public spaces more supportive, more caring and easier to navigate. It speaks equally to people with or without mobility issues and it focuses on bridging care environments and the public sphere. Its ambition is to be universal, to create a more mobility aware society.