The workshop will give students an
experience in two areas: Creative
Leadership (Day 1), Inclusive Design
(Days 2-5)
Creative Leadership — This
research area was pioneered by the
Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design to
counter widely-accepted
misconceptions of leadership. This
course will enable your individual
leadership potential as a creative. At
the heart of Creative Leadership are
some simple, yet innovative ideas: that
everyone has leadership potential;
that creativity is a universal ability to
develop solutions that positively
impact ourselves and others; that
empathy is the hallmark of a 21st
century leader; and that clarity is the
missing link in aligning vision,
direction, and communication.
Inclusive Design — Inclusive Design
(ID) is key to the 21st Century
designer. It makes your practice more
socially centred, relevant to people,
and inclusive across age, ability,
gender and race. It allows the creative
endeavours of design to be
democratised, co-opted and applied
to solve critical problems and issues
in an innovative, holistic and
human-centred way. Students will
learn from the organisation that
defined the term ‘Inclusive Design’.
You will work with real people to
experience this and given tools that
you can use the very next day.
Prof. Rama Gheerawo, Director,
The Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design,
Royal College of Art, London, England.
Ivelina Gadzhev, Founder, Design
for All, Bulgaria.
Dana Yichye Shwachman,
Industrial Design Department, HIT.
