Matter, the Bath-based design consultancy has won the 2009 DBA Inclusive Design Challenge for its radical rethink of the cushion. The award was given at a special presentation event at the Royal College of Art on 5 March 2009. More...
The findings of Welcoming Workplace, the Helen Hamlyn Centre’s international research project on the office design needs of older workers in the knowledge economy, was launched with presentations at the British Library’s Worktech 08 conference in London and the Build Boston exhibition for architects in the USA. More...
The Helen Hamlyn Trust has generously agreed to fund a Helen Hamlyn Chair of Design at the RCA. This is the first endowed academic Chair in the history of the College. Jeremy Myerson, Director of the Helen Hamlyn Centre, has been named as the first incumbent. More...
Five DBA member consultancies have been shortlisted to compete for the DBA Inclusive Design Challenge 2009 – BWA-Design, Clinic, Matter, Rodd Design and Wire Design. This year's Challenge is sponsored by Sanctuary Care. More...
The tenth Helen Hamlyn Research Associates programme got underway on 1 October 2008. Eleven new design graduates from five RCA departments are working on collaborative projects with a range of industry partners, including Samsung, Legrand, Bene and BUPA. More...
DOME, a £1.6m collaborative research project that links up the RCA Helen Hamlyn Centre with clinicians from St Mary’s Hospital, Paddington and management specialists at Imperial College Business School, got underway this autumn. Funded by the EPSRC, its aim is to design out medical error on hospital wards. More...
The Helen Hamlyn Research Associates 2008 presented their industry-funded projects at a show and symposium at the Royal College of Art on 18 September, as part of the RCA’s contribution to the 2008 London Design Festival. More...
The Design for our Future Selves Awards 2008, organised by the Helen Hamlyn Centre for graduating RCA students, was presented on Tuesday 1 July at the Royal College of Art. It was the opening event of Innovation Night at the College. More...
A three-day Challenge workshop organised by the Helen Hamlyn Centre, with teams from Italy, Spain, France and Greece, and sponsored by Roche on the theme of rheumatoid arthritis generated 18 realised design ideas. More...
Dr Yanki Lee, Research Fellow in the RCA Helen Hamlyn Centre, is the curator of a special exhibition of art and design about China by students and graduates of the Royal College of Art. The show opened on 10 May 2008 as part of the China Now Festival ahead of the Beijing Olympics. More...
Senior Research Fellow Julia Cassim was invited to run a 24 Hour Design Challenge to launch the European Business Design Conference in May 2008, organised by the Norwegian Design Council. Five teams of professional designers from Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland competed for the prize. More...
The Home Office invited the RCA Helen Hamlyn Centre to join a Design and Technology Alliance that aims to contribute to new initiatives to cut crime. More...
BT has launched a web-based inclusive design toolkit dedicated to building better business through improving design to meet the needs of real people. The launch of this resource follows a three-year collaboration between BT, the RCA Helen Hamlyn Centre, The Engineering Design Centre at Cambridge University and Sagentia. More...
A redesign of the standard hospital resuscitation trolley by a research team in the Helen Hamlyn Centre has won a major award at the 2007 Medical Futures Innovation Awards, the ‘Oscars’ of the healthcare industry.. More...
The Design for our Future Selves Awards 2007, organised by the Helen Hamlyn Centre for RCA students, were presented on Tuesday 26 June at the Royal College of Art as the opening event of Innovation Night at the College. More...
A communication project by Wolff Olins that rethinks the international disability symbol won the DBA Inclusive Design Challenge 2007. The result was announced at an awards night at the RCA on 6 February 2007. More...
Ed Matthews, a leading designer of medical devices and healthcare products, has joined the Helen Hamlyn Centre as Senior Research Fellow to develop its growing interests in healthcare and patient safety. More...
The Challenge Workshops, the Helen Hamlyn Centre’s main platform to demonstrate how inclusive design techniques can help businesses to innovate, returned to Japan in May 2007 with a workshop for manufacturer TOTO. More...
The Helen Hamlyn Centre has won a major research grant from the Designing for the 21st Century programme to look at ways to improve workplace design for older people. More...
Workplace projects by the Helen Hamlyn Research Associates 2006 went on show at the British Library as part of the WorkTech 06 conference looking at the links between technology, architecture and work. More...
A Helen Hamlyn Centre research team investigating the design of the future ambulance took part in AMBEX 2006, the leading international ambulance exhibition and conference held in June 2006 in Yorkshire. More...
The Helen Hamlyn Centre at the Royal College of Art has played a leading role in Design Bugs Out, a new initiative from the Department of Health, NHS Purchasing and Supply Agency and the Design Council, to deliver safer, cleaner hospitals. Design Bugs Out was unveiled to the press on 28 April 2009. More...
The Helen Hamlyn Centre has won one of three Collaborative Project Grants given by the British Embassy in Tokyo to celebrate UK-Japan 2009, a year-long series of events held to commemorate 150 years of diplomatic relations between Japan and the UK. The award will fund a three-day Challenge Workshop in Kyoto this summer. More...
Ten years of collaborative projects between new graduates of the Royal College of Art and industry partners across the European Union on the Helen Hamlyn Research Associates programme were featured in a major exhibition called CLOSEUP this autumn, held at the RCA as part of the London Design Festival 2009. More...
The Helen Hamlyn Centre held its second Forum on the Future of Surgery on 12 June 2009. This high-level think-tank at the RCA brought together 25 experts from the worlds of medicine, science, design, engineering, management, marketing and research to explore how the patient journey through surgery can be improved. More...
The Helen Hamlyn Centre at the Royal College of Art celebrated its tenth anniversary on 18 June 2009 with a party for 100 collaborators, opinion formers, advisers and staff members at Lady Hamlyn’s Old Church Street residence in Chelsea, London. More...
A pioneering new system called Pathfinder, designed by Helen Hamlyn Research Associate David Sweeney to help visually impaired people find their way around public space, has received international recognition for its innovative approach. More...
The Helen Hamlyn Research Associates 2009 presented their projects at the midway point of the programme on 6 April at the RCA, at a special evening seminar scheduled as part of the Include 2009 conference. More...
Six projects have been shortlisted for this year's Challenge. The theme for 2010 is Active Ageing – designing for our future selves, and looks at the challenges faced by people to remain active as they grow older. More...
The resus:station, a redesign of the hospital resuscitation trolley is on display at the Design Museum as part of the 'Ergonomics – Real Design' exhibition, running until 14 March 2010. More...
The first Methods Lab this academic year was held on 10-11 November. Forty design students from seven RCA departments and friends of the Centre participated in this two-day creative workshop, which aimed to explore how to design a more inclusive world. More...
An exhibition of the products developed under the All Inclusive Sarajevo project was held at the National Gallery of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo from 21-28 November and will travel to Belgrade and Zagreb in 2010. More...
The DBA Inclusive Design Challenge 2010, the UK flagship of the Helen Hamlyn Centre’s Challenge Workshops programme, held its tenth awards night at the Royal College of Art on 4 March. More...
Rama Gheerawo has been named Deputy Director of the RCA Helen Hamlyn Centre as part of a move to strengthen the centre’s management structure. More...
Two Helen Hamlyn Research Associates, Catherine Greene and Claudia Dutson, exhibited as part of the Worktech09 conference at the British Library, which explored the impact of new technology on workplace design. More...
The DBA Inclusive Design Challenge 2010, the UK flagship of the Helen Hamlyn Centre’s Challenge Workshops, held its tenth awards night at the Royal College of Art on 4 March. Clinic claimed the top prize. More...
The Helen Hamlyn Centre’s pioneering work in inclusive design was featured in You and Yours on BBC Radio 4 on 19 February 2010. The programme included an interview with Helen Hamlyn Professor of Design Jeremy Myerson. More...
The sixth international conference on inclusive design, Include 2011, organised by the Helen Hamlyn Centre, will take place at the Royal College of Art on 18-20 April 2011, sponsored by the Audi Design Foundation. Its theme will be social innovation. More...
A set of six proposals for infection control in hospitals, designed by the Helen Hamlyn Centre at the RCA, has been highly commended in the national Patient Safety Awards, announced in February 2010. More...
To celebrate ten years of the DBA Inclusive Design Challenge, the Helen Hamlyn Centre organised a special exhibition, entitled Trading Places, at the Sackler Centre for Arts Education at the V&A which ran from 19 April to Tuesday 25 May 2010. More...
The Helen Hamlyn Centre worked closely with the Norwegian Design Council on the 2nd European Business Conference on Inclusive Design 2010 - Innovation for All. This took place in Oslo 20-21 May 2010. More...
The Helen Hamlyn Centre was the official conference partner for the 2nd European Business Conference on Inclusive Design 2010 - Innovation for All organised by the Norwegian Design Council. Four members from the Centre went to Oslo between 19-21 May 2010 to take part. More...
Arthritis Research UK commissioned the Helen Hamlyn Centre to lead a Challenge Workshop on shoe design that took place 13-14 July at the University of Central Lancashire. More...
Outstanding socially aware projects by graduating students of the Royal College of Art were rewarded in the Helen Hamlyn Design Awards 2010, announced on 29 June. More...
The Helen Hamlyn Centre staged three exhibitions at the Royal College of Art in September as part of the RCA's contribution to the 2010 London Design Festival. More...
The Out of the Box project, completed in 2009 with Samsung on the Helen Hamlyn Research Associates Programme 2009, has been given a prestigious award by the Industrial Designers Society of America More...
Include 2011, the sixth international conference on inclusive design hosted by the Helen Hamlyn Centre at the Royal College of Art, has announced its keynote speakers for the event. Include 2011 takes places on 18-20 April 2011. More...
The Helen Hamlyn Centre’s Methods Lab for RCA students to explore design for our future selves ran this autumn from 1-5 November 2010 as part of AcrossRCA, an initiative encouraging interdisciplinary and inter-departmental collaboration in art and design. More...
The Helen Hamlyn Centre played a key role in the Battle of Ideas 2010, a two-day festival of high-level, thought-provoking debate organised by the Institute of Ideas and hosted by the Royal College of Art on 30-31 October 2010. More...
Helen Hamlyn Centre Research Fellow Dr Yanki Lee has been awarded a UK-China Fellowship of Excellence funded by Department for Business, Innovation & Skills (BIS). The award enables young researchers to conduct cutting-edge research in a Chinese research institution. More...
Helen Hamlyn Centre researchers played a key role in the Cumulus design education conference, Young Creators for Better City and Better Life, held in Shanghai in September 2010 and hosted by China’s Tongji University. More...
Researchers from the Helen Hamlyn Centre participated in the DARE (Design Age Research Exchange) Summer School, a high-level collaboration between the Royal College of Art and the Academy of Art & Design, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. More...
Helen Hamlyn Professor of Design Jeremy Myerson was given a Design Innovation Award by Northumbria University at Newcastle in June 2010 for his work in ‘pushing the boundaries’ of design as director of the centre. More...
Research work by the Helen Hamlyn Centre's health and patient safety lab was presented at the White House in Washington to members of the US Government's healthcare policy team in November 2010 by Senior Associate Maja Kecman. More...
Researchers Maja Kecman and Grace Davey from the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design's Health & Patient Safety Lab spent two days in Spring 2011 with the Centre for Innovation team at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota - a world leading medical practice and research group. More...
The Royal College of Art’s largest and longest-running centre for design research, the Helen Hamlyn Centre, has introduced a new name - the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design - and a new operating structure with three research labs, on 1 March 2011. More...
The Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design organised a 24 Hour Inclusive Design Challenge as part of the Include 2011 conference at the Royal College of Art. The Challenge was sponsored by Sanctuary Care and was open to all designers who wanted to take part. More...
The Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design has put on a major exhibition at the Royal College of Art this autumn as part of the London Design Festival 2011, entitled The Problem Comes First. More...
Outstanding people-centred design projects by graduating students of the Royal College of Art will be recognised in the Helen Hamlyn Design Awards 2011, announced on 28 June. More...
The sixth international conference on inclusive design, Include 2011, organised by the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design, took place at the Royal College of Art on 18-20 April 2011, sponsored by BT and Audi UK. Its theme was the role of inclusive design in making social innovation happen More...
A design project by Senior Associate Gregor Timlin that forms part of the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design’s programme of work in the area for dementia care has been shortlisted for Denmark’s prestigious Index Awards to improve life. More...
Helen Hamlyn Professor of Design Jeremy Myerson has been named as one of Britain’s 100 most influential people in technology in the June 2011 edition of Wired magazine. More...
The Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design’s annual education workshop, the Methods Lab, was held at the RCA from 31 October to 3 November 2011, as part of the cross-college AcrossRCA programme. More...
A new advance in hospital ward equipment, the CareCentre, has been launched by UK manufacturer Bristol Maid following collaboration with a research team from the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design, as part of the DOME (Designing Out Medical Error) project. More...
An exemplar project to explore how design can reduce incidents of violence and aggression in hospital Accident and Emergency departments was formally launched by the Design Council and Department of Health on 16 November 2011. The design consortium behind the work included researchers from the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design. More...
The latest phase of the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design’s flagship project to redesign the emergency ambulance was unveiled on 22 September 2011 with the launch of a mobile demonstrator unit at the Royal College of Art as part of the London Design Festival. More...
Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design Director Jeremy Myerson was a keynote speaker at the King’s Fund annual conference 2011, held in November at the Royal College of Physicians, London. More...
The Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design invited ReachOut RCA, the College’s art and design outreach service to schools, to use the theme of The Problem Comes First exhibition as the basis for a series of creative workshops with three London schools. More...
The Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design’s Work & City Research Lab teamed up with Unwired Events and Inflate to present Exploring Innovation, a one-day day innovation fair of early-stage technologies for work and the workplace, on 5 October 2011 at the Royal College of Art. More...
Professor Emeritus Roger Coleman, co-founder of the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design, has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University of Leuven in Belgium for his contribution to ageing research. More...
An exhibition of new designs for the hospital ward went on display at the Royal College of Surgeons Hunterian Museum in London from 31 January to 4 February 2012. Make It Better showcased research outputs from the DOME (Designing Out Medical Error) project, a collaboration between the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design and Imperial College London. More...
The Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design is set to play a leading role in The Creative Exchange, one of four AHRC-funded knowledge exchange hubs that aim to develop the creative economy in Britain over the next four years. More...
Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design Research Fellow Jo-Anne Bichard and Deputy Director Rama Gheerawo are to guest edit a special edition of The Design Journal to focus on Inclusive Design. More...
An exhibition of medical innovations created by the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design went on show in the Management Centre at Bangor University, North Wales, this spring as part of National Science Week. More...
