Helen Hamlyn Centre Projects
The annual DBA Inclusive Design Challenge is a five-month long mentored design competition described by the BBC as the “combined Olympics and Oscars of the inclusive design world”.
The aim of this knowledge transfer mechanism is to help designers at all stages of their career to understand how inclusive design can be a tool for innovation and business advantage. Disabled people work with the designers from project start to finish enabling designers to develop the key skills necessary to implement inclusive design methodologies into their working practice.
Since 2000, nine DBA Inclusive Design Challenges have been held in the UK. In 2005, the HHC took its key elements, condensed them and found that designers responded with enthusiasm and creativity even to an abbreviated time format. 24-Hour or 48-Hour versions have been held in London, Japan, Tokyo, Oslo, Singapore and Hong Kong and a three-day design workshop version has been developed for different contexts and held in Finland, Denmark, the UK and Japan. In all its iterations, it has proved a powerful knowledge transfer tool that has resulted in the creation of ongoing interdisciplinary networks of designers, engineers and disability professionals nationally and internationally
The proposed five-day workshop and accompanying exhibition will be based on this model.
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Projekti Centra Helen Hamlyn
Godišnji DBA Inclusive Design Challenge je petomjesečno takmičenje koje je BBC opisao kao “kombinaciju Olimpijade i Oskara u svijetu inkluzivnog dizajna”.
Cilj ovog mehanizma za prenošenje znanja je da pomogne dizajnerima u svim fazama karijere da shvate da inkluzivni dizajn može biti sredstvo za inovaciju i prednost u poslovanju. Ljudi sa posebnim potrebama rade sa dizajnerima od početka do kraja projekta, te omogućavaju dizajnerima da razviju osnovne vještine potrebne da implementiraju metode inkluzivnog dizajna u radnoj praksi.
U Velikoj Britaniji je od 2000. godine održano devet takmičenja DBA Inclusive Design Challenge. Centar Helen Hamlyn je sažeo osnovne elemente takmičenja 2005. godine, uvidjevši da su dizajneri odgovorili na zadatke sa entuzijazmom i kreativnošću čak i u suženom radnom periodu. 24-satne i 48-satne verzije takmičenja su se održale u Londonu, Tokiju, Oslu, Singapuru i Hong Kongu a trodnevne dizajn radionice su razvijene za drugačije kontekste i održane u Finskoj, Danskoj, Velikoj Britaniji i Japanu. Takmičenja su se u svim varijantama pokazale kao moćno sredstvo za prenošenje znanja. Niz nacionalnih i međunarodnih interdisciplinarnih partnerskih mreža dizajnera, inžinjera i stručnjaka za oblast posebnih potreba je nastalo kao rezultat takmičenja.
