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Useful resources and organisations promoting equality and justice in design
Organisations and networks
- Design Can – campaign to increase diversity in design
- Helen Hamlyn Centre for Inclusive Design, RCA – pioneer of the study and practice of inclusive design over the past 25 years
- Design Justice Network – international community of people and organisations who are committed to rethinking design processes so that they centre people who are too often marginalised by design
- Design Age Institute, RCA – providing strategic design to stimulate the longevity economy
Bauhaus Archive in German
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Book “Design and Democracy” from Birkhauser
Follow Ramia Mazé – designer and writer of the chapter “Design (Govern)mentalities: Implications of design and/as governance in Cape Town”.
Watch Dieter Ram´s documentary by filmaker Gary Hustwit (Helvetica)
The future of design education with Don Norman
Design Age Institute launches suite of new initiatives
The organisation has announced a Design Age Directory and a community for designers and “ageing humans” to challenge negative stereotypes.
By Molly Long April 28
The Design Age Institute will celebrate its first anniversary with a suite of new projects and initiatives which seek to continue its mission of making later life better through design.
Launched in 2020 with funding from Research England, the institute is attached to the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design at the Royal College of Art (RCA). It was established to support the government’s Grand Challenge on an Ageing Society, with a mission to support age inclusive design through aspirational products and services.
To mark its first anniversary, the institute has announced the creation of two initiatives: the Design Age Directory and This Age Thing.
Continue readingAdvanced Design Sessions
GENERATIVE DESIGN, A POSSIBILITY TO TEACH DESIGN BY FOLLOWING STUDENTS’ CREATIVITY AND THEIR SUBJECTIVE VISION
By Celestino Soddu from http://www.generativedesign.com/
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