Design Cafe Pilot

DESIGN CAFÉ PILOT

Co-designing solutions people want and need

Last Saturday, 22 July at Griffith University’s Gold Coast Campus, “Design Lab” Lead - Mathew McShane delivered our first Inclusive Futures Design Café Pilot program.

A montage of colour photos from the Inclusive Futures: Reimagining Disability Design Cafe Pilot program, with Photo 1 (top left) showing the guest speakers including Matt McShane, a wheelchair user, paralympian and program lead on the far right, Photo 2 (top right) attendees sitting in groups around a large table participating in co-design activities, Photo 3 (bottom) all attendees assembled outside Griffith University ADaPT building on the Gold Coast, all smiling together for a group photo.

The Design Cafe is a community building and technological engagement project that brings together engineers, designers, and occupational therapists with people with disability, to explore engineering and technology solutions to challenges people face every day.

Together with people who have lived experience, the program put forward new, co-created solutions for development, and thus provided valuable enhancements to people’s lives.

“We had an amazing opportunity to collaborate on inclusive designs during this event, truly embracing the essence of co-design. It was remarkable to directly learn from users and understand their unique challenges, while actively involving them in the design process. Such involvement has often been overlooked when designing for disability, but this event showcased a refreshing approach to human-centred design.”

A montage of colour images from our Design Cafe Pilot held at Griffith University in the ADaPT building, Gold Coast. Image 1: Researcher Sam Canning notes down on butchers paper ideas devised by the group, 2: A participant shares his ideas for co-design, 3: The Inclusive Futures: Reimagining Disability Team Jo Kek-Pamenter, Maretta Mann, Bek Barker together with Design Cafe Lead Matt McShane, a Paralympic basketball and wheelchair user, 4: Participants sit at a table brainstorming ideas, 5: Matt McShane addresses the Design Cafe cohort, 6: Members of the ADaPT engineering team standing and smiling for the camera.

For more information on future Design Cafés, please contact:

Matt McShane

m.mcshane@griffith.edu.au, or


Inclusive Futures: Reimagining Disability

inclusivefutures@griffith.edu.au


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