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Announcing the EIDD Design for All Europe 2012 Conference in Helsinki World Design Capital, May 2012
Cities for All Helsinki is an international conference aimed at bringing together a diverse range of solutions, illustrating the genuine potential of design to cater for different people’s needs and create a better city for all. The conference is part of the official World Design Capital Helsinki 2012 programme. The conference will bring the European Union’s focus area for the year, Active Ageing, to design capital. It will also provide a unique forum where professionals from different fields can share their visions of how design solutions, which pay equal attention to the dignity and needs of different user groups, can improve common wellbeing and welfare. Professionals will also have the chance to consider how such solutions can generate more added value in both the public sector and in businesses.
The Cities for All Helsinki conference is targeted at designers working in all fields (from products, architecture and the environment to communications, services and systems), and decision-makers in the public and private sectors. The conference consists of a professional conference and an exhibition. The conference language will be English.
Participants in the Cities for All Helsinki Conference will gain invaluable experiences at Design for All: unprecedented inspiration, visionary knowledge and enthusiastic innovation in the areas of accessibility, social cohesion and understanding.
The conference itself will provide an example of an accessible event, designed to cater for people of all kinds.
PARTNERS
Kone Oyj
Projektiuutiset
(Pete Kercher via TfA news exchange floor)
