Student Design Awards winners: Caring culture
Brief 4: How might we improve the lives of older adults and their carers by encouraging and enabling cultures, and higher standards, of care?
Winner: Balance
A collaborative platform providing families with tools to seamlessly pass down valuable caregiving insights, fostering a culture of care and support spanning across generations.
Balance is a service that offers tools and support for families to plan and communicate about elder care giving together, reducing caregiver stress and improving care quality for the elderly.
Commendations
Highly commended
Jack Brady and Sean Kevin O’Carrol,National College of Art and Design, Dublin, Ireland
Uplift: A service providing relief for carers through local volunteering which enables community support and fosters stronger social bonds.
Amelia Blantern, Arts University Bournemouth, England
Steady: A community scheme providing public, rentable smart mobility aids for older adults to encourage safe and independent walking outside.
What a privilege to see the depth of design thinking these students have applied to some really complex challenges, and well done to the RSA for enabling them to showcase their ideas in this way.
It is wonderful to know that through this brief, students are broadening their worldview and realising that design isnt just for commercial use but can be used to impact the greater good!
