48-Hour Inclusive Design Challenge
Julia Cassim
(United Kingdom)

Symposium on Inclusive Design

26.01.07, 10am – 12pm
Singapore Polytechnic Auditorium
Admission is free

Join Julia Cassim as she presents a lecture on the creative and business rationale for inclusive design and how user-centred design methodologies can be a spur towards innovation. Aimed at professional designers and graduating design students, this lecture will also feature case studies of established designers and architects, as well as disabled users. A treat for anyone in the field of design.

Write-Up of Design School, Singapore Polytechnic

48-Hour Inclusive Design Challenge

The Festival, together with the British Council and DesignSingapore, is honoured to invite Julia Cassim, an inclusive design expert from the Royal College of Art. Julia will be organising the 48-Hour Inclusive Design Challenge as well as exhibit a video installation - a special commission of the Festival at Jendela. (Click here for more information)

Participants of the 48-Hour Inclusive Design Challenge will dedicate 48 hours to the conceptualisation of designs and prototypes of new products and environments which incorporate the inclusive design aesthetic. Entries will be showcased at VivoCity, with the following cash prizes awarded to three teams:

• A cash prize of $3,000 awarded to the winning team
  
  
• A cash prize of $1,000 each awarded to two Special Mention teams
  
  
  Find out more about the 48-Hour Inclusive Design Challenge

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Supported by the British Council, DesignSingapore Council, Royal College of Art (Helen Hamlyn Research Centre), Singapore Management University,Singapore Polytechnic and Building and Construction Authority.

What is Inclusive Design?

Relationship to Art and Disability

Biography of Julia Cassim