RCA Hosts 'Include 2015' Conference on Disruptions in Inclusive Design
The Royal College of Art will host a milestone international conference this autumn that seeks to redefine the global field of inclusive design and map its new directions: Include 2015, the 8th International Conference on Inclusive Design, will take place at the RCA’s Battersea campus on 17–18 September 2015.Â
Hosted by the RCA’s Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design, the conference theme is ‘Disruptive Inclusive’. It will explore how definitions and subjects have expanded in inclusive design, and the how the rapid emergence of new technologies has changed the landscape.Â
Six
international keynote speakers will explore disruptive ideas in inclusive
design, including Julian Thompson, Advanced Design Director at Jaguar Land
Rover, and Alvin Yip, Director of the Jockey Club Design Institute for Social
Innovation in Hong Kong.
A series of interactive workshops, presentations by designers active in the field and posters by early-career researchers, alongside the Include Conference Awards, will further investigate ways in which the purposes and practices of inclusive design are changing.
Helen Hamlyn Professor of Design, Jeremy Myerson, who will co-chair the conference, explains: ‘Ever since the design community first came together around the needs of older and disabled people for the inaugural Include conference in 2001, a series of disruptions have moved the tectonic plates under the subject of inclusive design. Co-design, co-creation and crowdsourcing have re-cast the relationship between designers and users; social innovation, big data and the customisations of 3D printing have raised new agendas. The world now looks very much more pluralistic than the picture 14 years ago. This new world of inclusive design is what Include 2015 will explore.'
Steve Wilcox from Design
Science in Boston, USA, who chairs Include’s international review committee,
adds: ‘This is a must-attend event for all designers, researchers, business
managers and policymakers interested in design for and with people.’
Prior to the opening of Include 2015, there will be a special visit for delegates to the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, the site of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, on Wednesday 16 September. Delegates will be given a seminar and tour of the Olympic Park from the top of Anish Kapoor's Orbit sculpture and observation tower. Â
Include 2015: The 8th International Conference on Inclusive Design will be held at the Dyson Building, Royal College of Art, London SW11 4AS from 17–18 September 2015
For more information and registration details, visit Include 2015.
Include 2015 is sponsored by Realys, the international professional services company in the built environment, and its cultural partner is the British Council.