Human Centred Design Global Academy

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The Human Centred Design Global Academy is a cross-discipline academy that uses members' expertise in design, technology, art, architecture, and policy to meet global challenges. Its cutting-edge work is organised around vibrant and practice-focused schools and multidisciplinary groups and centres, such as the Centre for Applied Research in Inclusive Arts and Design (CARIAD) and PDR-International Centre for Design and Research. The Global Academy is a virtual space bringing together work from these areas underpinned by a variety of activities to support interdisciplinary, innovative and international research and innovation.

This Global Academy showcases and supports the research, learning, and networks related to Human Centered Design. Underpinning research within this Global Academy are two UN Sustainable Development Goals: decent work and economic growth, and industry innovation and infrastructure.

Multidisciplinary researchers working within this Global Academy study a range of topics in art, technologies, digital fabrication and design, as well as related technologies in Artificial Intelligence (AI), robotics, and data science. Their shared focus is designing innovative and creative products, services and processes for industry which place the individual at the centre. One such multidisciplinary research project involves creating a ‘maker space’ facility that enables the NHS to work with people who have neurological conditions, brain injuries, and other chronic conditions to collaboratively create products that improve long-term social and physical outcomes. This project ensures that people are able to maintain or improve their independence and vocational ability as well as reducing cost to the NHS. This Global Academy aims to not only improve design and design processes, but also to facilitate connections between people by designing effective policies – an example of this is PDR’s applied training programme which has been delivered to governments and businesses across the globe, which aims to train and educate teams in how to implement service design and policy design principles in their approaches.

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Cardiff Metropolitan University
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