Include 2003
inclusive design for society and business

Keynote Speakers

Prof Roger Coleman
Professor of Inclusive Design, Co-Director of the Helen Hamlyn Research Centre at the Royal College of Art (RCA). Specialising in design and ageing, he established the DesignAge programme at the RCA in 1991 and the European Design for Ageing Network in 1994.

A 1994 Queen's Anniversary Prize was awarded to the RCA in recognition of the DesignAge programme, and Roger received the Sir Misha Black Award for Innovation in Design Education in 2000. He is a director of R&D company London Innovation, and a jury member for the RSA Student Design Awards. He has lectured extensively in the UK, Europe, North America, Japan and Australia.
 

Yasayuki Hirai
Associate Professor of Industrial Design at the Kyushu Institute of Design in Fukuoka, Japan, since 2000. He was born in Osaka in 1961 and studied product design at the Kyoto City University of Arts and furniture design at the Royal College of Art, London. He has worked for the Japanese office furniture manufacturer Kokuyo, and for IDEO Product Development in the US. His many awards include the Red Dot Prize and the Good Design Award.
 

Dr Patrick Jordan
Head of the Contemporary Trends Institute, formerly Director of Trends and Identity at Philips Electronics, with responsibility for communicating brand image. He was also Head of User Research at Symbian, a joint venture by Motorola, Nokia, Psion, Ericsson and Panasonic.

Patrick has over 100 publications, has won numerous professional awards, has written or edited 5 books and is currently Europe's best selling author in his field. His latest book 'How to Make Brilliant Stuff that People Love and Make Big Money Out of It' was released by Wylie in 2002. In 2001/2002 he was awarded the Nierenberg Chair of Design at Carnegie Mellon University, the most prestigious appointment in US design education.
 

Dr Satoshi Kose
Senior Research Fellow at the Building Research Institute, Japan. Born in 1948, he graduated from the University of Tokyo in 1971, joining the Building Research Institute of the Ministry of Construction in 1972. During 1978-79 he was based at the UK Building Research Establishment.

He specialises in building safety and human factors, and is one of the leading figures in universal design research in Japan. Publications include guidelines for dwellings for the ageing society. Satoshi's awards range from the Distinguished Paper Award of the Japanese Institute of Human Posture, the Ron Mace Designing for the 21st Century Award, to awards from Japan's Minister of Construction and the Minister of Education, Science and Technology.
 

Yasmine Mahmoudieh
An international architect and interior designer. Born in Germany, she studied Art History in Florence, Architecture in the École d'Interieur in Geneva, Interior Design at the College of Nôtre Dame in Belmont as well as Architecture and Interior Design at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she got her diploma. In 1986 she founded her first own studio in Los Angeles.

In 1992 she opened studios in Hamburg and Berlin, Germany, and later in Barcelona and London. Her work includes complete interior design concepts for hotels, restaurants, shopping centres and office complexes as well as multiuse projects. She also designs furniture and exhibitions. Her company Mahmoudieh Concepts works on complete conceptions for more functionally orientated designs in the commercial real estate sector. She has won awards for interior design projects at the Coconut Grove Plaza, Miami, office buildings for Tishman Speyer, the Wyndham Hotels chain and Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art.
 

Prof Patricia Moore
Principal of Moore Design Associates, is an internationally renowned gerontologist and designer and a leading authority on the requirements and behaviours of consumers as they progress through the lifespan. For three years (1979-1982) she travelled throughout North America disguised as a woman of over 80 years of age. With her body altered to simulate the sensory changes associated with ageing, she was able to respond to people, products, and environments as an elder.

She holds degrees in Graphic and Industrial Design from the Rochester Institute of Technology, in Biomechanics from New York University's School of Medicine and the Institute of Rehabilitation, in Psychology and Counseling, and in Social Gerontology from Columbia University.

Patricia was presented with the 1997 Professional Recognition Award by the Arizona Design Institute, and is an Adjunct Professor of Industrial Design at Arizona State University. She has been named by ID Magazine as one of The 40 Most Socially Conscious Designers in the world and was named in 2000 as one of the 100 most important women in America. ABC World News has chosen her as one of 50 Americans defining the new millennium.
 

Prof Jeremy Myerson
Professor of Design Studies and Co-Director of the Helen Hamlyn Research Centre at the Royal College of Art (RCA). A writer, editor and academic specialising in the study of the work of designers in relation to social and technological change, he is a graduate of Hull University and of the RCA. From 1986-89, he was Founding Editor of Design Week, the world's first weekly news magazine for designers and their clients - a publication that profoundly influenced how design firms in the UK operate.

His many books include The Creative Office, New Public Architecture, and Design Renaissance, an edited collection of essays setting out humanist and inclusive agenda for design.
 

Earl Powell
President of the Design Management Institute since 1985. During his tenure, many innovative programs have been initiated, and the Institute has developed an international reputation for excellence in design management research, scholarship, and educational programmes. He has worked to ensure that the Institute's web site serves the worldwide design and design management communities.

He holds an undergraduate degree in industrial design, an MA and MFA in painting, and has worked as an industrial designer, design manager, artist, college instructor, and academic dean. He serves on numerous boards, including the European Academy of Design, the Japan Institute of Design, and the German Design Council. In autumn 2002 Earl received an honorary doctor of letters from the University of Westminster for his numerous contributions to design management. He is a frequent lecturer and design management consultant.
 

Dr Nina Warburton
Started her career at the Centre for Industrial Design in Newcastle, she joined Random Product Design in 1997, and in 1999 became a founder director of Alloy, an independent employee-owned consultancy providing product innovation and design services worldwide.

Her design philosophy is driven by human needs, aesthetic values and a robust technical foundation. She has worked across a wide range of sectors including childcare products, airline seating, medical equipment, consumer electronics and structural packaging, for clients including BT, Toshiba, Virgin Atlantic and Yorkshire Water. Committed to breaking down the barriers between design and research practice, Nina is one of few people to have carried out a truly practice-based design research doctorate, with a PhD awarded in 2002.
 

Matthew White
Consultant Designer and Engineer. He was born in 1977, and graduated from the University of Birmingham in 1998 with a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering. While studying for an MA in Industrial Design Engineering at the Royal College of Art, his re-invention of the watering can was a winner in the Helen Hamlyn Research Centre's 'Design for our Future Selves' competition.

He joined the Centre's Research Associate program in 2000 to develop a range of user friendly power tools with DIY retailer B&Q plc. Two products, a drill and a sander, were launched with national TV advertising in late 2002. Matthew currently works as a consultant for B&Q, applying his user-centred design approach to further product categories.

Session Chairs

Dr John Clarkson
Returned to Cambridge University's Department of Engineering in 1995 following a seven-year spell with PA Consulting Group's Technology Division where he was manager of the Advanced Process Group. He was appointed director of the Engineering Design Centre in 1997 and a Reader in 2001. John is directly involved in the teaching of design at all levels of the undergraduate course.

His research interests are in the general area of engineering design, particularly the development of design methodologies to address specific design issues, for example the design of medical equipment, inclusive design and the use of knowledge-based systems in design. As well as publishing over 150 papers in the past six years he has written a number of practitioner's workbooks on medical equipment design and design for low-volume manufacture, and co-authored a book on Inclusive Design.
 

Rama Gheerawo
Research Co-ordinator at the Helen Hamlyn Research Centre (HHRC). He has a BEng (Hons) in Mechanical Engineering, from Imperial College, London and an MA in Industrial Design Engineering from the Royal College of Art. He has worked in the automotive, product design and civil engineering industries for companies such as the Rover Group, Robert Benaim and Associates and Atlantic Design. He is also Design Manager of a web and electronic media company.

At the HHRC he works with MA students and the Centre's new graduate research programme on industry-linked projects. Research interests centre around this work, especially the practical application and education of inclusive design. He has written a number of academic papers and articles. Interests include Indian Classical Music. He regularly performs South Indian Classical Vocal, most recently performing at George Harrison's Memorial Concert at the Royal Albert Hall in November 2002.
 

Prof Emeritus Bill Green
Graduated in Industrial Design in the dark ages and has been involved in professional design, education and research for 40 years. His work in England, Australia and Holland has focused on human-centred design, and he has been active internationally in promoting the links between ergonomics and design.

He was Professor of Applied Ergonomics and Design and Head of Industrial Design at Delft University of Technology until his return to University of Canberra, Australia, in 2001. Bill is now taking a more leisurely approach (and is developing an interest in the ergonomics of the golf swing for the elderlyÉ) but maintains an active interest in education and consultancy.
 

Prof Clare Johnston
Professor of Textiles at the Royal College of Art and Design Consultant for Liberty. Responsible for the Printed and Constructed Textile courses, within the School of Fashion and Textiles, where research, innovation, creativity, versatility and individuality are the core elements of the departmental philosophy.

Clare has extensive professional practice with Nigel French Enterprises, Marks and Spencers and Liberty plc, working on colour and fabric design across fashion and textiles. Responsible for the direction of the Liberty design team since 1998, design of brand products, the international wholesale fabric collection, and international licences in UK and Japan. She is involved in colour prediction and consultancy work for the British Textile Colour Group,Tissus Premiere Textile show, and The Mix prediction company. Clare is also advisor for Glasgow Centre of Advanced Textiles, and committee member for Texprint.
 

Prof Peter Lansley
Professor of Construction Management at the University of Reading. Until recently he was involved mainly with helping construction and engineering firms improve their performance. Currently, he is engaged in national research and development initiatives to meet the needs of older people and those of physically, sensory and mentally impaired people. He chairs the EPSRC EQUAL Committee.

Peter has advised national and international bodies on organisational development issues, and governments on the evaluation and assessment of research and innovation programmes. He has published widely on organisational performance, innovation, research into practice, and the role of the professions.
 

Prof Alastair Macdonald
Head of Department of Product Design Engineering (PDE) at Glasgow School of Art. PDE challenges the traditional approach to mechanical engineering education and has provided an exemplar for other courses in the UK and overseas. PDE tackles issues from a human-centred point of view: human factors and aesthetics concerns are as integral as engineering and science.

Alastair lectures and publishes widely, particularly in human factors, inclusive design, aesthetics-related issues, and futures technologies.
 

Lesley Morris
Design Learning Manager at the Design Council. A trained interior designer, for 18 years she worked in design consultancies on commercial interior design projects such as offices, showrooms, retail outlets and banks. She went on to develop and lead the MA Design Leadership programme at Middlesex University, and joined the Design Council in 1997 as a senior manager, with responsibility for working with higher education and developing links with the Council's business projects.

Lesley is currently working on a European research project, 'Design for Future Needs' and on a project looking at the potential role of design in technology transfer activity in universities. Her special interests and expertise include: links between education, industry, policy and design practice; design leadership and management, design education and professional development, design research.
 

Prof Wolfgang Preiser
Professor of Architecture at the University of Cincinnati, with over 35 years of teaching experience in theory, research methods and applications in programming and evaluation of environments. Among theses are Visiting lectureships at 30 universities in the US, and over 35 worldwide. Publications include 13 books and over 75 chapters, monographs and articles on building evaluation, programming, regional architecture and environmental design research in general. Recent examples include the Universal Design Handbook (2001); and Improving Building Performance (forthcoming).

Wolfgang has been principal investigator for research grants totalling more than $2.7 million on design in the cross-cultural context, public housing and evaluations of many other building types, and his many Awards include the Progressive Architecture Annual Award and Citation (1985) and 1989) and the EDRA Career Award (1999).