Designing for Your Future Self: Happy, healthy and wise

Dickson is a designer focused on creating and promoting radically accessible, wildly engaging experiences for people of all ages and abilities. As a Knowledge Exchange Fellow at DAI, she helps synthesise and share DAI’s work to enable healthy and happy ageing through desirable products, services and environments. She co-authored the book 'Just Living: Homes for Our Future Selves', has previously worked at the MIT AgeLab and Alison Brooks Architects, and studied architecture at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design.

Lowe is a senior design leader with a significant track record of developing inclusive products and services in the private, public and charitable sectors. In 2020 Colum joined the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design at the Royal College of Art as Director for Design Age Institute. He has been Head of Design at the Ministry of Justice, Sainsbury’s, Homebase and the NHS National Patient Safety Agency, and has run design firms Crabtree Hall, CaulderMoore as well as his own consultancy.

Bailey is the CEO & Founder of Appear Here, a leading marketplace for retail space with a mission to create a world where anyone with an idea can find space to make it happen. Hailed a 'Digital game changer for the high street' by The Guardian, working with luxury brands like Gucci, Chanel and Supreme, celebrities such as Stormzy and Harry Styles and thousands of independents. Bailey was named one of Fast Company's Most Creative People in Business, Forbes '30 under 30' and the Financial Times 'Top to under 30 entrepreneurs'.

Mauger has worked for over 23 years in the areas of Health, Wellbeing and Voice with and for older people including her current role as Chief Executive for Third Age Trust. Her experience includes as CEO of Age UK London, Co-Chair of the Age England Association, Chair of City of London Healthwatch and Chair of the London Voluntary Sector Forum. Mauger is also a trained Mediator.

Yogendra specialises in governance, growth, risk, and decision-making. She is an independent governor of London Metropolitan University, and a non-executive director and committee chair on the boards of several listed companies; this follows a career in the technology industry and a luxury startup. Named FTSE 100 Women to Watch 2016, she has a PhD in decision-making from the University of Cambridge, an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, and a first degree in Electronics Engineering.

The Design Age Institute is the UK’s national strategic unit for design and the healthy ageing economy. The Institute works with designers, businesses, researchers and communities to help address the challenges and opportunities of an ageing society through the transformative power of design.