The History of the Challenge
The 2008 Inclusive Design Challenge is based on the footprint of the annual DBA Inclusive Design Challenge, a unique five-month long mentored design competition described by Rory-Cellan Jones, the BBC’s business correspondent as the “combined Olympics and Oscars of the inclusive design world”.Since 2000, eight DBA Inclusive Design Challenges have been held in the UK organised yearly by the Royal College of Art, Helen Hamlyn Centre in London in collaboration the Design Business Association (DBA), the UK’s largest trade association of design firms.
24 and 48-Hour Challenges
The DBA Inclusive Design Challenge lasts for five months. In 2005 the Royal College of Art took its key elements, condensed them into 24 hours and found that designers responded with enthusiasm and creativity to this abbreviated format. Since 2005, shorter 24-Hour and 48-Hour versions have been held in London, Japan, Tokyo, Oslo and Singapore to great success. The format has also been adapted into a three-day design workshop version that has been held in different corporate and academic contexts in Finland, the UK and Japan.All have resulted in a range of innovative mainstream inclusive design solutions, which span all design disciplines from product design, interaction design, 3D design, environments, services and visual communications.
See Past Challenges for details of previous challenge results
