EP 36: Designing to Improve Life for People | Rama Gheerawo

Rama Gheerawo is the director of The Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design
at the Royal College of Art in London. Rama is an international
figure within design. He won a Design Week ‘Hall of Fame’ award in
2019 and was named a 2018 Creative Leader by Creative Review
alongside Paul Smith and Björk. He uses design to address diversity
through age, ability, gender and race. He is a serial innovator in
the field of Inclusive Design and Design Thinking having led over
100 international projects with government, business, academia and
the third sector with clients such as Samsung, Toyota, AgeUK and
Panasonic. He champions inclusive and empathic approaches through
his pathfinding work in Creative Leadership, having trained
thousands of people including over 700 civil servants. Bon and
Ramna talk about inclusive design, the magic of designers working
in healthcare and how Indian classical music served as a training
ground for a career in design.