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Happy, Healthy & Wise

Happy, Healthy & Wise

Join a panel of experts to explore how can organisations create products, services and environments that are not only needed, but desired, by older people?

The Wisdom Hour: Future Selves

The Wisdom Hour: Future Selves

The Wisdom Hour invites you to reflect on getting older (and possibly wiser!) over a cup of tea.

Application workshops

Application workshops

Get involved in one of two application support workshops for applicants to the Transport Innovation Pathfinder Programme.

WATCH: Transport Briefing

WATCH: Transport Briefing

Watch a recording of the Transport Pathfinder Innovation Programme Briefing event.

Designing for our Future Selves

Designing for our Future Selves

Our upcoming display at the Design Museum from 24 February, will showcase ten innovative design initiatives that aim to help everyone age more happily and healthily.

Virtual Briefing Event

Virtual Briefing Event

Do you have an idea to reimagine transport for an ageing population? Join our event introducing our new Programme with up to £120k funding available.

The Wisdom Hour: Transport

The Wisdom Hour: Transport

Designers Luke Pearson and Richard Newman sit down for a discussion on wisdom, ageing, and designing for a more mobile world.

Design.Different

Design.Different

Featuring the work of The Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design (HHCD) over 2021/22, a period of opening up, new possibilities and intense activity.

WATCH: The Wisdom Hour

WATCH: The Wisdom Hour

Fashion designers Betty Jackson and Ellen Fowles, sat down for "The Wisdom Hour" to discuss wisdom, designing and ageing in a changing world.

Petition for packaging

Petition for packaging

Join us in petitioning government to introduce mandatory standards for consumer packaging to enhance accessibility, sustainability & choice.

On Tour: V&A Dundee

On Tour: V&A Dundee

Our recent exhibit 'The Future of Ageing', co-curated with the Design Museum, is touring to the V&A Dundee between 12 October 2022 - 22 January 2023.

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.

Ageing in a Changing World

Ageing in a Changing World

Fashion designers Betty Jackson and Ellen Fowles sit down to discuss wisdom, designing and ageing in a changing world.

WATCH: Inclusive Technology

WATCH:  Inclusive Technology

Watch our talk and panel discussion at the Design Museum, exploring how technology is shaping how we design for an ageing population.

Include Conference 2022

Include Conference 2022

Hosted by The Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design at the Royal College of Art. Include is a global conference that focuses on inclusive design.

Exhibit: The Future of Ageing

Exhibit: The Future of Ageing

A free exhibit exploring how design is helping to reimagine the way society can support a population that is living longer to age with greater agency and joy.

Growing Together: Open Day

Growing Together:  Open Day

Drop into the Design Museum on Saturday 23 July for the Growing Together Garden Summer Open Day with design studio public works.