Held on 10 March 2015, during the Urbaccess accessibility and universal design fair in Paris, the 6th edition of the International Design for All Foundation Award ceremony awarded 5 projects out of a selection of 43 projects from 15 different countries recognized as “Good Practices 2014“.
The 5 winning projects are:
Products and services already in use:
- Seniori365.fi (Laurea University of Applied Sciences)-Finland: a new internet platform to support seniors and their caregivers at home and enhance co-operation between city, educational organizations of different levels (vocational, UAS, university) and study programs
- Etxegoki (Federación Coordinadora de Personas con Discapacidad Física de Bizkaia-FEKOOR)-Spain: a facility with 32 assisted apartments for persons with physical disabilities based on the concept of “participatory design”
Projects, proposals, initiatives, methodologies and studies:
- Habitat for all (Autonom’lab)-France: a regional participative and cross-disciplinary study on adapted collective housing
- Interactive sensory labels for improving the visitor experience at the British Museum (University of Reading and The Rix Reseach Center UEL)-United Kingdom: involve the use of technology and sensory information to help make museum/heritage sites more exciting and appealing to people with learning disabilities
- Ecuadorian Methodology for Developing Universal Accessibility Plans-Ecuador, vive la inclusión (SETEDIS-Secretaría Técnica para la Gestión Inclusiva en Discapacidad and Vicepresidencia República del Ecuador)-Ecuador: an innovative methodology to assess and measure Universal Accessibility and facilitate the development of accessibility plans
More information: https://news.designforall.org/publico/index.php?opc=articulo&article=3401&idioma_article=en
