This year we were delighted to be able to run for the third year the “Designing for the Future” Competition with the College of Richard Collyer in Horsham. The winners were announced HERE. Other designs included : Colourful Overbed Table by Uthman Mahmood Uthmam’s product was designed for people who are confined to bed. He was
Today Designing for the Future alumni, Hanna Mawbey and Holly Alexander are at the Ergonomics & Human Factors 2014 Conference hosted by the University of Southampton. Invited by Dr Eddy Elton of University of Brighton, Hanna Mawbey is showcasing her work to develop aesthetically pleasing medical aids and Holly Alexander her multi-generational prize winning
David Edwards is a partner with Brighton law firm Burt Brill & Cardens. Here he shares with us some thoughts about why planning for the future pays off. Future thinking is a very specific type of thinking – making conscious decisions based on larger, long-term prospects isn’t always easy to do, but in many
We were delighted to be asked by the Housing Learning and Improvement Network to showcase our student design for aging project, Designing for the Future, at their annual conference in London this week. The Housing Learning and Improvement Network (LIN), formerly responsible for managing the Department of Health Extra Care Housing capital programme, is
This is a momentous year for our Designing for the Future student design project which we run with the the University of Brighton. Not only are we celebrating five years of great student projects focussing on design for aging but this year we have entrants from three courses across two Faculties. With these milestones in
2014 is going to be a big year for our Designing for the Future student design competition. This month we welcome to the team our first ever intern, Charles Palmer. Charles is a placement year student, studying product design engineering at Brunel University with an interest in Product, Brand, interaction and spatial design. Charles
Great to see our "Designing for the Future" student design competition featured this week on the excellent Blue Badge Style blog. Blue Badge Style is run by Fiona Jarvis whose mission is about "ensuring that wherever you go or whatever you do it is a positive, cool, fashionable and elegant experience. Style and
Making a Will is something which is so easy to put off and yet without one, you risk leaving your family vulnerable. Lawyer David Edwards from family law firm Burt, Brill & Cardens has put together an easy to read, downloadable Guide which explains how to make a will, how to make sure it is legal and
I was delighted to be asked to contribute a Viewpoint piece by Housing LIN about design for aging and in particular to share my experience and some of the outcomes from our Designing for the Future project with Faculty of Arts, University of Brighton. Housing LIN is a professional network supporting over 5,800 people working in
In October, I took part in a seminar organised as part of the ILC-UK and Personal Finance Resource Centre project on financial circumstances and wellbeing hosted by Brown-Forman to discuss findings around consumer spending. David Hayes from the PFRC presented new research exploring patterns of expenditure among older people which was then debated by an expert roundtable, along with
