Bespoke Access Awards 2016/17
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Description
The Bespoke* Access Awards 2016/17 is an international design competition, which seeks original ideas to improve access and provide an enhanced experience for hotel guests, particularly for those with disabilities.Peers in the UK House of Lords initiated the competition. It aims to employ good design to re-imagine the welcome that hotels extend to guests with physical disabilities and learning difficulties, with the aim of making the hotel experience more joyful and inclusive. The scope of the competition is wide-ranging. It seeks to reward the most creative and original ideas in architecture, interior design, product design and service design.
Ideas could address the experience from the front door to any room or service within a hotel, and the process that has to be undertaken before a visitor arrives or at check out.
The competition is international and open to everybody. Individuals, groups and design professionals of any age are all eligible. The competition organisers welcome particularly entries from designers and architects with disabilities. Entrants should demonstrate that they have engaged with ‘service users’, including disabled people, in framing their proposals. Entries will be assessed anonymously.
Jury
Robin Sheppard
Chairman, Bespoke Hotels
Chairman, Bespoke Hotels
Celia, Baroness Thomas of Winchester
House of Lords
House of Lords
Alan Stanton
Architect, 2012 Stirling Prize Winner
Architect, 2012 Stirling Prize Winner
Tanni, Baroness Grey-Thompson
aralympic Gold Medallist; House of Lords
aralympic Gold Medallist; House of Lords
Rory Coonan
RIBA Fellow. Director of Architecture at the Arts council of Great Britain (1992-97), Creator of Design for Care (2015)
RIBA Fellow. Director of Architecture at the Arts council of Great Britain (1992-97), Creator of Design for Care (2015)
David Day
Senior Designer, Seymour Powell
Senior Designer, Seymour Powell
Rewards
Celia Thomas Prize
$27 368Other
$13 684Timeline
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