Design Innovation

Designing the Everyday

Designing the Everyday

Read our latest report, ‘Designing the everyday for a less frustrating later life’, revealing the most frustrating household objects as we age.

Questionnaire: Falls

Questionnaire:  Falls

Share your experiences as part of a project exploring the incidence of falls as we grow older, and contribute to improving stability and safety.

Masterclass: Design for Ageing

Masterclass: Design for Ageing

Learn how to apply design and innovation approaches to create better customer products, services and experiences for an ageing population.

Reimagining the walker

Reimagining the walker

Announcing Michael Strantz (MA Design Products, 2022) as the winner of the Hamlyn Walker Challenge to rethink the walker as reliable, desirable and joyful.

Explore your future wisdom

Explore your future wisdom

Join us at the Design Museum on 21 July for an interactive workshop exploring if we really get wiser as we get older.

Growing Together Garden

Growing Together Garden

Drop into the Design Museum on Saturday 7th May for the Growing Together Garden Open Day with design studio Public Works. 

Hamlyn Walker Challenge

Hamlyn Walker Challenge

A fantastic opportunity to redesign an everyday mobility aid and develop your design at world-leading design consultancy.

WATCH: Applicant briefing session

WATCH: Applicant briefing session

Watch the briefing session for applicants to our Pathfinder Projects and submit your application for up to 50k by 20 February.

Innovators in ageing

Innovators in ageing

Up to 50k available to fund services & products that can enable people to live longer, healthier and happier lives towards market.