Pathways in Practice: Design x Disability

​Join us for a 3-hour hands-on session that will bring inclusive design to life. Through an experiential workshop and engagaging lecture, you’ll directly experience accessibility challenges, explore design as a social tool, examine the relationship between inclusive design and open-source assistive technologies, and develop innovative, inclusive concepts that respond to real-world challenges. This unique workshop is a chance to broaden your perspective, strengthen your human-centered design practice, and discover how inclusive design can spark innovation, creativity and social change.

​Facilitator Bio:

​Dana Yichye Shwachman is Social Interaction Industrial Designer & Educator. She believes that good design is a bridge for independence. Dana grew up into the disability world, her father is a wheelchair user. She leads by the view that people with different able bodies are not really disabled. We, as a society, disable them by not designing products for their needs, abilities, and desires. Dana specializes in Design Meets Disability and Inclusive Design as an Industrial designer and Entrepreneur. She holds a master’s degree in HCI, Human Technology Interaction, IDC Herzliya, Israel. Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Design, Major in Social Design (B.Sc.), HIT, Israel.