Pre-Challenge Workshop for Volunteers
Date: Sunday 24 August, 2008
Venue: to be confirmed
Aim
All participants will become ambassadors for the 48 Hour Inclusive Design Challenge in Hong Kong. They will work with multidisciplinary teams of designers from Hong Kong, Mainland China and East Asia, led by designers from the UK. This workshop will be a training session for Challenge volunteers to help familiarise them with the concept and practice of Inclusive Design. It will take the form of a hands-on design project.
Who can take part?
Design students or young designers under 30 of all disciplines from Hong Kong
Workshop Leader
Dr. Yanki Lee
Research Fellow, Royal College of Art Helen Hamlyn Centre, London, UK
Collaboration
The workshop is a collaboration between the Royal College of Art and the British Council Young Advocates Programme which selects and provides training for able-bodied and disabled young people to support the spirit of the Paralympic Movement and the Paralympic Games in Beijing 2008.
Local Collaborators:
- Yan-yan Yip, Civic Exchange
- Grace Pan and Tim Jachna, School of Design, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
- Dr. Denny Ho Kwok Leung, Department of Applied Social Sciences, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Background – Inclusive Design in Hong Kong
One reason for social exclusion is the lack of awareness of issues relating to population diversity and the impact that this can have on the urban design and planning process. In a dense city like Hong Kong, the challenges of diversity include issues of age, gender, race and disability. Through this collective workshop, young people from different backgrounds will investigate a specific aspect of everyday life and experience and see how inclusive design thinking can help to investigate and innovate answers to these issues.
Benefits to Participants
- learn with world experts of Inclusive Design and social inclusion
- tuition costs to be covered
- be part of the network of Inclusive Design through working with the Royal College of Art Helen Hamlyn Centre
- work with well-estabished designers from the UK and other Asian countries
- experience the Inclusive Design Process with other people with different age, ability and nationality
- a good portfolio project for CV
Application Procedure
Interested parties please email Dr. Lee (yan-ki.lee@rca.ac.uk) with the following information:
- a 200 word of introduction
- a photo of yourself
- why you want to participate
- languages spoken
Places are limited.
