Action for Age
designing a better future
Action for Age was part of an exciting new concept this year called Design Directions Plus: designed to offer students the opportunity for contact with, and input from, key experts and stakeholders in the development of their projects.
The RSA created opportunities for the shortlisted students to have mentoring sessions with practicing service designers to expand and develop their ideas and, following this, they then took part in a stakeholder workshop in order to reinforce the participatory co-design process that is at the heart of creating services. Once these extra processes were completed, the students had a few weeks to prepare their final presentation to the judging panel.
Jury Members
Chair: Lord Best
Gregor Anderson, Head of Tech Pack, Technical Packaging, GlaxoSmithKline Research & development
Andrew Barnett, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
Andrew Grant, Director, Worldwide Device Technology, GlaxoSmithKline Research & development
Pamela Holmes, Head of Healthy Ageing, Help the Aged
Deborah Szebeko, Director, thinkpublic
Päivi Tahkokallio, Tahkokallio Design+
Paul Thurston, Head of Design, thinkpublic
Winners
Middlesex University
Vincenzo Di Maria, Ayda Anlagan, Pu Tai
New Graduates of Central St Martins
Norwich University College of the Arts
Shortlisted
Rachel Deller
Northumbria University
Caroline Forte, Lucy Peers
Kingston University
Dimitri Merakli
University of Westminster