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Loughborough lecturer on the winning team in 48-hour design challenge
Posted on 20/06/08
Loughborough University Design and Technology lecturer George Torrens was part of an inter-university team of designers that clinched first place in a new design challenge.
Lecturers and researchers from the UKs top design universities were brought together in the unique 48 hour co-design challenge, which was organised by the Audi Design Foundation an established charity that supports inclusive and sustainable design.
The event paired up design experts and service users of Leonard Cheshire Disability, the UKs leading disability charity, to develop a gardening solution that could be applied to any of the charitys 150 care home services and day centres around the country to enhance the experience for their service users.
The winning team comprising lecturers from five universities and services users of Leonard Cheshire Disability developed a variety of imaginative garden tools, including an innovative rotating planter which can be easily operated from a wheelchair.
Reflecting on the challenge, George Torrens said: It was a demanding 48 hours of activity, but it was satisfying that the process our team used was the same user-centric, evidenced-based approach we advocate to our own design students.Rebecca Edge, Manager of the Audi Design Foundation, commented: This is the first time such a project has been undertaken its an opportunity for university lecturers to lay the foundation for new methods of instruction, which highlight the need for inclusive design in everyday products.
She added: What is very appropriate about the Masterclass winning solution is that the products can be used not only by those with disabilities but also able bodied users.
There are currently almost 10 million disabled people in the UK with an estimated purchasing power of around 80 billion, and yet many of the innovative designs that fill our homes and places of work and pleasure are either exclusionary or require specialist adaptations to be used by disabled people.
Many of the barriers disabled people face today are the result of bad design in the past, so it makes sense for us to team up with the Foundation to bring together designers and disabled people and hopefully inspire tutors and students to think differently about the way they design, said Mark Bishop, Head of Corporate Partnerships at Leonard Cheshire Disability.
The unique opportunity to bring designer and end user together made a positive impression on everyone involved. The time weve spent with the teams has been a real eye-opener for us, said Leonard Cheshire Disability disabled volunteer Stuart Fordham. We didnt realise just how much is involved in designing ordinary objects. Its been great to feel weve been an important part of that process.
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