Julia Cassim, Senior Research Fellow at the Royal College of Art Helen Hamlyn Centre in London will facilitate the 24H Inclusive Design Challenge.

About Julia Cassim

Much of Julia Cassim’s career has been spent in Japan where she went as a postgraduate sculpture scholarship student. She worked as arts columnist of The Japan Times, founded a non-profit organisation for visually impaired people working with them to increase cognitive and physical access to museum collections of art and artefacts and curated and designed award-winning exhibitions for audiences with visual impairments and learning disabilities documented in her book on the subject. Returning to the UK in l998, she joined the Helen Hamlyn Research Centre at the Royal College of Art in 2000 where she is Senior Research Fellow.

Since 2000, her research focus has been the involvement of disabled people in the design process as a spur to innovation and inclusive thinking and the development of knowledge transfer methodologies about inclusive design to the design and business communities. She organises the annual DBA Inclusive Design Challenge and Workshops of shorter duration.

About The Royal College of Art Helen Hamlyn Centre

The Royal College of Art Helen Hamlyn Centre provides a focus for people-centred design and innovation at the RCA in London, the world's only wholly postgraduate university institution of art and design. The centre was set up by Roger Coleman and Jeremy Myerson in January 1999 to explore the design implications of social and demographic change. Today, its multi-disciplinary team of designers, engineers, architects and anthropologists undertake practical research and projects with industry. The centre is endowed by the Helen Hamlyn Trust and has worked with many global businesses including Ford, Unilever, Steelcase, Hewlett Packard, GlaxoSmithKline and Philips.

The Royal College of Art's Helen Hamlyn Centre in London, UK, is the conference partner for the European Business Conference of Inclusive design.

Visit the Helen Hamlyn Centre website.