Session 6: Social sustainability: The role of inclusive design
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11.30am–1pm, Friday 23 September 2022
In the world of sustainability, the social aspect is often less considered than the environmental or economic. Often it is flatly ignored. However, people’s attitudes, behaviours and actions are integral to future conversations. In a world where we have to swiftly act, there is a focus on the roles, strategies and frameworks that are reactive rather than considered and responsive, and based on the principles of do no harm to people or planet.
This session will look at the role that inclusive design can play in charting pathways and bring in human voice to a world that often focuses on large-scale global strategies, intellectualisation and conceptual discussion.
Keynotes: 11.30 – 12.00
- Chair: Shravan Joshi
- Speakers: Roger Rohatgi, David Constantine
Lightning talks: 12.00 – 12.30
- Chair: Ralf Alwani
- Speakers: Ralf Alwani, Clara Gaggero, Jo-Anne Bichard
Panel discussion: 12.30 – 13.00
- Chair: Jo-Anne Bichard
- Panellists: Shravan Joshi, Valerie Fletcher
Shravan Joshi & Roger Rohatgi
Session 6 Presenters
Keynotes
Roger Rohatgi
Forward-thinking, award-winning creative leader with 25 years of experience successfully leading and managing products, projects and teams to innovate, develop and create dynamic digital initiatives, emerging disruptive technologies, stunning marketing and advertising campaigns, engaging customer experiences (CX) and compelling user interfaces (UI) and user experiences (UX) on a myriad of B2C websites, mobile apps, B2B SaaS enterprise software products, interactive cable and broadcast TV shows/networks, nonprofits and digital and social media platforms for and with top brands, media outlets and agencies such as Verizon, Motorola Solutions, Hyundai, CBS, NBC, FOX, MDA, Univision, Oxygen, MTV, Telemundo, T-Mobile, World Cup, Chicos, White House Black Market, Conill, IPG, and more.
David Constantine
David Constantine MBE, Until December 2021 was Founder Director of Motivation, a UK nonprofit, social enterprise that designs and provides wheelchairs and related training in low- and middle-income countries. He holds an MA in Computer Related Design from Royal College of Art and BSc in Computer Studies/Accountancy & Finance from Oxford Brookes University. A full-time wheelchair user since 1982, he has lived experience of wheelchair services in high income countries and through his work with Motivation over the last 30 years, knows how important wheelchair services are in those regions.
David served as the ISWP Forming Committee Chair throughout 2020 and is chair of the Founding Board of the ISWP. In 2023 he will become the President of the International Society of Prosthetics and Orthotics, and currently sits on the WHO ad hoc advisory group for the development of the WHO World Report on Assistive Technologies.
Lightning talks
Ralf Alwani
Ralf Alwani BA(hons) MA(RCA) is Co-founder/CEO at PolyLoop.io which serves as a policy and impact mapping tool to government clients, helping transform monitoring and evaluation practices globally, and co-founder at Urban Scale interventions a creative agency which responds to changes in the way we live, work and play through people-centered design. He was awarded on the Forbes 30 Under 30 2021 list for social impact for contributions to government sector transformation. And was awarded both The Helen Hamlyn Design Award for Creativity while at the RCA and the Alumni Award in 2021. Ralf ’s interests lie in technology, design and impact.
Jo-Anne Bichard
Jo-Anne Bichard is a design anthropologist whose research involves multi / inter-disciplinary collaboration and participatory engagement in the inclusive design process. She graduated from Goldsmiths College (University of London) with a BSc (Hons) in Social Anthropology. After graduating Jo-Anne joined Goldsmith's department of Anthropology as a researcher for ESRC and MRC funded the Innovative Health Technologies programme. During this time, she also completed an MSc in Science Communication at Imperial College London.
Clara Gaggero
Biography coming soon
Panelists
Valerie Fletcher
Valerie Fletcher has been Executive Director since 1998 of the Institute for Human Centered Design (IHCD). Fletcher writes, lectures and works internationally. She oversees IHCD’s consultation design and education services and created the IHCD User/Expert Lab. Her current research focus is generating data to inform designing for people with brain-based conditions and people from low income communities. Fletcher has a master’s degree in ethics and public policy from Harvard University. She is on the Board of the International Association for Universal Design (IAUD) and a Trustee of the Boston Architectural College. The HHCD named her Inclusive Design Champion 2022.
Shravan Joshi
Shravan Joshi has served since 2018 as an elected member at the City Corporation and has held various positions including:
- Deputy Chairman of the Licensing Committee
- Deputy Chairman of the Streets and Walkways Sub-Committee
- Deputy Chairman of the Property Investment Board
He is Chairman of Planning & Transportation Committee and Local Plans Sub Committee and a Member of the Policy and Resources Committee and Resource Allocation Sub-Committee.
Shravan started his career in investment banking but moved to the energy sector in 1999. He specialised in trade structuring and supply chain contracts into Central Asia, Eastern Europe, the Far East and North America. He has worked with several new energy technology companies, and he advises and consults on commercialisation of new innovations and solutions.
