At the Royal College of Art
September 11 2000, Imperial College London
As part of Creating Sparks: Where Science meets the Arts — the 14 day British Association Millennium Festival — the DTI Foresight Ageing Population Panel, Research into Ageing and the EPSRC funded research consortium on inclusive design* held an event which brought together designers, researchers and scientists in an important discussion
The event tackled a key issue: improving the quality of life of older people through better design for everyone.
• How could that be achieved through more effective communication between the scientific and medical research community and design and industry?
• With a focus on understanding of the ageing eye, researchers and designers presented their work and discussed how they could benefit from each other's expertise.
Chaired by:
Sir Stewart Sutherland, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Edinburgh
Speakers included:
Professor Ian Grierson, University of Liverpool
Professor Usha Chakravarthy, Queen's University and Royal Victoria Hospital Belfast
Dr Bob Thompson, President of the Macular Disease Society
Graham Pullin, Designer, international multi-discipliary design company, IDEO
Dr John Gill, Chief Scientist, RNIB
* The i~design consortium brings together: The Design Council; The Engineering Design Centre, Cambridge University; The Design for Ability Unit of The London Institute; The Helen Hamlyn Research Centre, The Royal College of Art.
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