(Briefing)

Five of our disabled Hong Kong young advocates will work with teams of talented young designers from all around Asia in a 48-hour competition to be held at the end of August, organised by the Royal College of Arts. The aim of the competition is to find the best design for a product that provides greater accessibility to disabled users – the best "inclusive design". The activity will develop the advocates' teamwork skills as well as their employability.

(Event)

The Inclusive Design Challenge is a mentored design competition based on the footprint of the Design Business Association (DBA) Inclusive Design Challenge organised annually by the Royal Collage of Art and the DBA. Competition have been running since 2000, and this 48-hour Inclusive Design Challenge will be held in Hong Kong featuring six teams from Hong Kong, Mainland China, and East Asia. One of the aims of the project is to show how disabled people can be a vital part of the design process as a proactive template for social inclusion. Each team will comprise of between six to eight designers or design educators, and they will work around-the-clock to a prescriptive brief given to them at 10:00am on Day One. The teams will do a Final Presentation of their inclusive design proposals on Day Three, and a networking reception will follow. The winning team will be given the chance to showcase their design solution in the London Design Week at the Royal College of Art in September 2008.
A total of five of your disabled Young Advocates from Hong Kong will take part.