As the global population continues to age, there is growing attention on achieving healthy and active aging. The key to achieving this goal is inclusive design, which involves creating accessible and usable products, services, and environments for people of different ages and abilities. This session will explore the relationship between inclusive design and healthy aging. It will define inclusive design and discuss its significance and benefits for aging societies. The sharing session will analyze inclusive design in areas such as architecture, urban planning, transportation, consumer goods, and technology. The lecture will delve into how thoughtful, people-centric design can promote independence, social participation, and quality of life as we age. It will emphasize the health, psychological, and social outcomes of creating inclusive and barrier-free spaces and systems for older adults. Participants will gain an understanding of inclusive design principles and their applications to support healthy, meaningful, and engaging aging.
For this IEE session, we are honored to invite Professor Hua Dong from Brunel University. Through this session, she will help students better understand the connection between design and building an aging society, the concept of inclusive design, its applications in various urban domains, and the importance of creating an aging-friendly society.
We look forward to your attendance!
Event Info
Topic: Healthy Aging and Inclusive Design
Time: 1:30-3:00 PM, Oct 12 (Thursday)
Venue: Water Pavilion
Speaker: Prof. Hua Dong
Speaker Info
Prof. Hua Dong
Head of Brunel Design School
EPSRC funds Principal Investigator for “Promoting Wider Uptake of Inclusive Design”
International judges of the Sustainable Development Goals Design International Awards 2019
2012-2020 Member of the Board of the Design Research Society (DRS)
Hua Dong is a Professor and the Head of Brunel Design School. She was awarded her Ph.D. Degree from the Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge. Her research focuses on inclusive design. She founded the Inclusive Design Research Group at Brunel University London, contributing to the Design Council’s ‘Design Bugs Out’ Challenge, resulting in successful products and exhibitions at the Design Museum. Dong also established the Inclusive Design Research Centre in China, where her Inclusive co-creation project was presented at the Milan Triennale in 2019. She has been a keynote/invited speaker on inclusive design at various international conferences and universities. Dong has provided consultancy to organizations like Which?, Reckitt Benckiser, Active Life Village, Shanghai M&G Stationery Inc., Zhida Technology, Cam Scanner, Ant Financial, and government and charitable institutions.
Professor Hua Dong has been a Peer Review College of the AHRC since 2019. In the same year, Dong was appointed International Judge of the SDGs Design International Awards (2019). Recognized for her expertise, She was a Council Member of the Design Research Society (DRS) from 2012-2020, and was elected Fellow of DRS in 2019. She is an EPSRC-funded Principal Investigator and co-leader of the EPSRC and KTP projects. In 2020, she launched a UK-Turkey collaboration on inclusive design and published the book Inclusive Design + Social Innovation in 2021. She also designed the film ‘Evolving Inclusive Design’.
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