Webinar: Are you an Inclusive Designer?

Learn how to design inclusively and give everyone the choice and dignity to enjoy your interior projects comfortably and safely.

In this webinar, inclusive design specialist Julie Fleck OBE, will examine the principles and processes of inclusive design, provide an update on relevant legislation, regulations, and technical standards, and give examples of best practice, enabling interior designers to design inclusive environments with confidence and authority. 

WHAT TO EXPECT

In the 45 minute webinar Julie will cover:
• Inclusive design principles and processes
• Legislation and government policy
• The Practice of Inclusive Design
• Learning from best practice
• The good the bad and the inaccessible
• Common Design Pitfalls
• Further Information
• Questions (15 minutes concluding the webinar)
WHAT YOU WILL LEAVE WITH 
Using case studies from Julie’s book ‘Are you an Inclusive Designer?’ (published by RIBA in 2019), this CPD will help designers identify common design pitfalls and give you a deeper knowledge and understanding of how to practice and deliver the highest standards of access and inclusion in your interior design projects.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
This webinar is open to everyone with an interest in design. BIID members can access this seminar for free, non-members can purchase a ticket for £5 + VAT.

Please forward any questions you would like added to the Q&A for our panel to info@biid.org.uk by Wednesday 13th January 2021. 

ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Julie Fleck OBE, MRTPI(Rtd) is a Strategic Access and Inclusive Design Adviser. Her career as a local authority town planner has been spent specialising in access for disabled people and inclusive design practice.  
At the Greater London Authority (GLA) she developed the London Plan inclusive design policies, provided technical inclusive design advice on strategic planning applications, and contributed to the Olympic Delivery Authority’s award-winning Inclusive Design Strategy.  As the GLA’s Paralympic Adviser Julie helped make London ready for the Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Julie has also: lead the BEPE Project, a Government Paralympic Legacy project to stimulate a systematic change in how inclusive design is taught; drafted the Construction Industry Council’s Essential Principles for Creating an Inclusive Environment (for Built Environment Professionals, and for Clients, Developers and Contractors); and also drafted a Teaching and Learning Briefing Guide for educators called ‘Bringing Inclusive Design into Built Environment Education’.

Julie was awarded her OBE in 2004 for services to disabled people.

Additional information

Once you have registered for this event and your membership status has been verified, you will be emailed the Zoom Meeting link.  If this event is fully booked, please join the waiting list. If you are no longer able to attend, please inform the office so that we can give your spot to someone else.

Prices are not inclusive of VAT

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