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Student awards announced

The Design for our Future Selves Awards 2007, organised by the Helen Hamlyn Centre for RCA students, were presented on Tuesday 26 June at the Royal College of Art as the opening event of Innovation Night at the College. More...

24 Hour Inclusive Design Challenge

Fenomenon, Hyphen and an RCA Alumni team participated in a 24 Hour Inclusive Design Challenge on 3 April, 2007 at Imperial College, as part of Include 2007. Michael Wolff was the keynote speaker. More...

Include 2007 - designing with people

The fourth international Include conference, sponsored by the Audi Design Foundation, took place at the Royal College of Art in London, 2-4 April 2007. More...

DBA Challenge award winner

A communication project by Wolff Olins that rethinks the international disability symbol won the DBA Inclusive Design Challenge 2007. The result was announced at an awards night at the RCA on 6 February 2007. More...

Inclusive design in Japan

The Helen Hamlyn Centre organised a 48-Hour Inclusive Design Challenge as part of the International Conference for Universal Design, held in Kyoto, Japan, 22-26 October 2006. More...

Medical designer joins centre

Ed Matthews, a leading designer of medical devices and healthcare products, has joined the Helen Hamlyn Centre as Senior Research Fellow to develop its growing interests in healthcare and patient safety. More...

Audi to support Include 2007

The Audi Design Foundation agreed to support Include 2007, the international conference on inclusive design scheduled for the Royal College of Art on 2-4 April 2007. More...

Challenge Workshop in Japan

The Challenge Workshops, the Helen Hamlyn Centre’s main platform to demonstrate how inclusive design techniques can help businesses to innovate, returned to Japan in May 2007 with a workshop for manufacturer TOTO. More...

Design entrepreneur Lee speaks

Alex Lee, President of OXO International and the design entrepreneur behind the Good Grips range of kitchen tools, was the guest speaker at the RCA symposium of the Helen Hamlyn Research Associates 2006. More...

Centre wins 21st Century research award

The Helen Hamlyn Centre has won a major research grant from the Designing for the 21st Century programme to look at ways to improve workplace design for older people. More...

British Library exhibits

Workplace projects by the Helen Hamlyn Research Associates 2006 went on show at the British Library as part of the WorkTech 06 conference looking at the links between technology, architecture and work. More...

Moving ahead at AMBEX

A Helen Hamlyn Centre research team investigating the design of the future ambulance took part in AMBEX 2006, the leading international ambulance exhibition and conference held in June 2006 in Yorkshire. More...

Japanese researcher at centre

Dr Atsue Takeoka joined the Royal College of Art Helen Hamlyn Centre for six months as a visiting researcher from the User Science Institute at Kyushu University in Japan. More...