Temasek Design School’s DESIGN UNPLUGGED presents A Workshop with Ron Nabarro, Monday 4th September 2006 from 9.30am – 5.30pm at 3rd level, Multi-purpose Room 1
Design Unplugged, once again is bringing to you, a very special event in the form of a design workshop on “Age Friendly Design” by renowned proponent of design for the elderly, Prof. Ron Nabarro from Technion, Israel Institute of Technology.
His principle areas of interest are research design for the third age and the elderly, user interface and usability, design education; design management, green design. He is a frequent presenter in design conferences and seminars and the writer of articles on design management, design for the elderly, consumer values and green design for business periodicals and business daily papers. Coincidentally, DFA (Design for Aging) is also a TDS initiative for the year 2007 where we will, as a design school, look into the study of gerontology with practical design outcomes, exploring new opportunities to foster design innovation so as to enhance the built environment and quality of life for our aging society. Prof. Nabarro has done a substantial amount of work in this particular area and it is fortuitous that he is currently in town as a judge in the current Red Dot design competition.
Professor Ron Nabarro is a Professor of Industrial design at the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, where he is the head of the graduate program in Industrial Design and Design Management. Prior to joining the Institute, he was Dean of the School of Design and Art at the Holon Academic Institute of Technology. He was also an executive board member of ICSID (the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design) from 1999 to 2003. He has been a practicing designer since 1970, Founder and director of Innovation Design ltd.(1973), founder and director of Design4all (2001) and co-founder and co-director of Senior-Touch ltd (2003).
His workshop is on Monday 4th September 2006 from 9.30am – 5.30pm at 3rd level, multi-purpose room 1, will be very useful in the area of DFA.
