Universal Design Grand Challenge 2015
On Thursday, 4th June 2015, students from third-level colleges across Ireland presented their design projects at the second Universal Design Grand Challenge Awards ceremony in the Westin Hotel, Dublin.
Go Therapeutic Horse Riding Aid wins the UDGC People’s Choice Award 2015 and the UDGC Judges' Choice Award 2015
The winner of the “Peoples’ Choice Award”, voted on by members of the audience was from Jack Gregan from IT Carlow for his design “Go Therapeutic Horse Riding Aid”.
The “Judge’s Choice Award” was selected by a panel of lead Irish designers and innovators. This year’s winner of the Judge’s Choice Award was also Jack Gregan from IT Carlow for his design “Go Therapeutic Horse Riding Aid”.
The “Go Therapeutic Horse Riding Aid” is designed to enhance and improve the therapy of horse-riding for everyone involved.
This year also saw a new award category supported by Enterprise Ireland. The “Universal Design Commercialisation Award” provides support to winners to receive a Commercial Case Feasibility Grant from Enterprise Ireland. There were two “Universal Design Commercialisation Award” winners: The “Go Therapeutic Horse Riding Aid” by Jack Gregan and the “Ripple” universal jerry can cap and filtration system by Isabella Morehead and Dylan McKimm from NCAD.
See highlights from the award night
Runners up on the night were:
Design name: The Zoomerframe
Student name: Stefan Walshe
Tutor name: Gareth Bennett
College and course name: Universal Design Innovation, TCD
Individual or team entry: Team
Design name: Stride
Student name: Patrick Horrigan
Tutor name: Sam Russell
College and course name: NCAD
Individual or team entry: Individual
Design name: Haven
Student name: Nichola Disley
Tutor name: Enda Finn
College and course name: DKIT
Individual or team entry: Team
Design name: Access in Advance:The Development of a Building Access Rating
Student name: Davitt Lamon
Tutor name: Emma Geoghegan
College and course name: DIT
Individual or team entry: Individual
Design name: Kanyu
Student name: Seán Larkin
Tutor name: Ray Ekins
College and course name: DIT
Individual or team entry: Individual
What is the UDGC?
The Universal Design Grand Challenge (UDGC) is a design competition that promotes and awards design excellence in Ireland. The UDGC invites third level students in their final two years of study, post grads and recent graduates to enter their best student project to compete for two National Universal Design Student Awards.
This years UDGC features a special, optional prize, the "Universal Design Commercialistaion Award" supported by Enterprise Ireland.
Prizes
UDGC People’s Choice Award 2015 Trophy (travelling perpetual trophy) €1,000.00 in prize money (€500 for the school plus €500 for the designer(s))More about the Enterprise Ireland “Universal Design Commercialisation Award”
The Commercial Case Feasibility Grant by Enterprise Ireland recognises the excellence in applied research in the Higher Education sector and the need for business development expertise to complement researchers’ technical expertise, to develop strong commercialisation strategies for innovations.
The Brief
Enter your student project. Show how your design achieves at least 4 out of the 7 Principles of Universal Design.
Acknowledgements
The Universal Design Grand Challenge Student Awards 2015 is run by the Centre for Excellence in Universal Design, NDA.
The UDGC 2015 is part of Irish Design 2015.
The "Universal Design Commercialistaion Award" is supported by Enterprise Ireland.
Organisation and administration of the UDGC 2015 is supported by DesignHub Tullamore.
