Event at the Design Museum, London around design for ageing/disability

Thursday 17th June 2010

10am - 4.30pm
Design Museum, London

Are you interested in reframing the ageing/disability debate, as well as exploring how we can harness universal design to support independent living?

Enabled by Design are passionate about harnessing people's strengths and to empower them to live as independently as possible. Universal Design taps into this by focusing on meeting the needs of as many people as possible, to make either a product or service accessible. By mainstreaming accessibility, this can help to remove any stigma attached, while making people's lives that little bit easier and in turn more manageable - universal design means accessibility for the masses.

With health inequality, strategic commissioning and targets such as LAA's to be reached, this event offers some thought provoking ideas and excellent examples of best practice. Good service design has to meet technical standards and combine fitness for purpose with whole-life costs to deliver value for money. Reduced public funding gives us all the challenge of not only raising the quality of services but also the need to develop sustainable strategies for existing services.

If you are looking to be inspired and hear the latest ideas from peers including internationally recognised experts Charles Leadbeater and Wayne Hemingway then this is the event for you.

Tickets are now available - the event organisers are curating the audience to get a good balance of people from the following areas: service users, designers, technologists, health and social care professionals, charities and third sector. Go to www.amiando.com/weareEbD.html for more information and to book your place.

Tickets are £10 and will also cover a buffet lunch, refreshments and entrance to the current Design Museum exhibitions including the Brit Insurance Designs 2010 showcase.