Awards

Big Idea Award for Inclusive Communication

The Wordy Hurdy Gurdy 
- Carrie May, RCA Communication Art & Design (Winner)
A screen-based book that subtly employs the use of synthetic phonics to encourage children to recognise sounds within words in order to gain a clearer understanding of word construction and pronunciation. 

Extreme Green Guerilla. (E.G.G.)
- Michiko Nitta, RCA Design Interactions (Highly Commended)
The project demonstrates how ‘extreme’ green activities might provoke awareness of an unsustainable recycling system.

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CABE Award for Inclusive Environment

Component Textile
- Laura Perryman, RCA Printed Textiles (Winner)
Patterned and contoured fabrics mounted on panels create a range of interior components to help people with visual impairments to organise their objects or navigate space at home.

Care to Exchange
- Mark Manning, RCA Architecture (Highly Commended)
A high-rise housing project that proposes a mixed-use programme of work-homes for city workers during Monday to Friday and an urban exodus for rural carers at the weekend.

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Future Foundation Award for Inclusive Design Process

StickSafe
- Michael Korn, RCA Industrial Design Engineering (Winner)
A redesign of the standard hospital cardboard tray that holds needles safely in order to minimise the risk of needle stick injuries – accidents with syringes.

The Wordy Hurdy Gurdy 
- Carrie May, RCA Communication Art & Design (Highly Commended)
A screen-based book that subtly employs the use of synthetic phonics to encourage children to recognise sounds within words in order to gain a clearer understanding of word construction and pronunciation.

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Help The Aged Award for Independent Living

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- Clara Gaggero, RCA Industrial Design Engineering (Winner)
A urine sample collector and diagnostic device that makes the process of collecting urine more comfortable.

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Michael Peters Award for Multi-disciplinary Collaboration

dotº
- Clara Gaggero, Sabine Fekete, RCA Industrial Design Engineering and Jonathan Bishop, RCA Design Interactions (Winner)
dot° is an interactive playground simulating an enormous horizontal computer game screen on the floor that encourages kids to run, play and socialise outdoors using their imagination.

hera.miko
- Komal Vora, Rachel Tomlinson, Michael Korn, RCA Industrial Design Engineering and Helen Wilde, RCA Fashion Womenswear (Highly Commended)
A footwear technology that can be embedded in to any type of shoe that opens and closes without the need to bend down or use hands.

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Mobility Choice Award for Independent Mobility

hera.miko
- Komal Vora, Rachel Tomlinson, Michael Korn, RCA Industrial Design Engineering and Helen Wilde, RCA Fashion Womenswear (Winner)
A footwear technology that can be embedded in to any type of shoe that opens and closes without the need to bend down or use hands.

Tac-tile
- Yuko Kanemuro, RCA Printed Textiles
A new type of tactile pavement tile that not only provides an essential guide for people with walking sticks but also accommodates the needs of different people such as those using wheelchairs or pushchairs or wearing high heels.

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Helen Hamlyn Award for Creativity

dotº
- Clara Gaggero, Sabine Fekete, RCA Industrial Design Engineering and Jonathan Bishop, RCA Design Interactions (Winner)
dot° is an interactive playground simulating an enormous horizontal computer game screen on the floor that encourages kids to run, play and socialise outdoors using their imagination.

The Wordy Hurdy Gurdy 
- Carrie May, RCA Communication Art & Design (Highly Commended)
A screen-based book that subtly employs the use of synthetic phonics to encourage children to recognise sounds within words in order to gain a clearer understanding of word construction and pronunciation. 

StickSafe
- Michael Korn, RCA Industrial Design Engineering (Highly Commended)
A redesign of the standard hospital cardboard tray that holds needles safely in order to minimise the risk of needle stick injuries – accidents with syringes.

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Snowdon Award for Disability Projects

Kneetronic
- Sabine Fekete, RCA Industrial Design Engineering (Winner)
An intelligent and supportive rehabilitative brace that limits harmful knee movement while the knee is healing after injury or surgery.