Include 2009

The RCA Helen Hamlyn Centre is pleased to announce it will be holding
Include 2009 at the Royal College of Art, London 5-8 April 2009.

Include is a biennial conference and an international network which aims to
support people working in the field to make inclusive design a reality.
Founded and hosted by the Helen Hamlyn Centre, it builds links and advances
knowledge transfer between academic research and the design industry. 

The title of the event will be Inclusive Design into Innovation:  
Transforming Practice in Design, Research, and Business.

Include 2009 will be chaired by Professor Alastair Macdonald (Glasgow
School of Art), Professor John Clarkson (Engineering Design Centre,
University of Cambridge), Steve Wilcox (Design Science) & Melanie Howard
(Futurologist and author of 'The Future Unwrapped')

We will be shortly announcing a call for papers on completed research
from academic researchers, design managers, designers, design educators
and design commissioners that describe inclusive people centred
approaches in their chosen field and the innovative outcomes.

Themes to be considered include:
    - New and emerging practices
    - New users (exploring beyond age & disability)
    - New designers
    - People centered innovations

Issues and experiences that may be discussed include:
    - Changes in design education to encompass an inclusive approach
    - Collaborative research with users in inclusive design
    - Boardroom barriers to inclusive design
    - Excluding Design - who are we missing?

To Register an interest in Include 2009, please join the Include Network
at http://www.hhc.rca.ac.uk/kt/include/network.html to receive further
details and registration discount

To view details of previous Include conferences please go to
http://www.hhc.rca.ac.uk/kt/include/index.html