OUR MISSION
The project name ‘Impactive’ originates from our aim, which is to work collaboratively with disabled people have a postive impact on Disabled people, empowering them in being active members of society bringing about change themselves.
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We aim to tackle challenges that disabled people face during their everyday lives through the design and build of customised equipment/accessories, so they can be independent.
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The people that we collaborate with are integrated into the design and manufacturing process, pioneering a participatory design approach, recognising that everyone's needs are bespoke under the umbrella of disability.
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Ultimately, we want to spread the message that "good design is inclusive design", sadly in a time where accessibility is currently being taught on the periperhery of engineering degrees whereas it should a critical factor in the design process and can benefit us all.
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OUR STORY
COMMITTEE
2024 COMMITTEE
Rozenn Raffaut
PROJECT LEAD
Wan Yooucha
Athana Reissis
PROJECT LEAD
PROJECT LEAD
Marketing Team
Ashley See
MARKETING MANAGER
Owen Ouyang
MARKETING MANAGER
HOW DOES IMPACTIVE WORK?
Project Impactive is a student-led volunteering project based in University College London (UCL). We work with UCL's Volunteering Service, with a project supervisor that offers resources and advice.
In the last few years, we partnered with external organisations, including the Global Disability Innovation Hub, Remap and MERU to secure contacts/cases. Organisations such as the Global Disability Innovation Hub has put us in touch with people that we could work with in achieving their hopes and aspirations by creating bespoke equipment in collaboration with them.
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The way our projects work is shown in the flowchart below:
For any given project stream, the teams meet with the Disabled co-creator to better understand the project requirements. The team then works together to brainstorm and design a solution. During the design process, teams have panel meetings to acquire technical assistance from teaching staff from UCL Mechanical Engineering department. Working on feedback from these panels, the teams are able to build the working prototype in the Institute of Making.
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For the 2017/ 2018 period, we had 17 volunteers that worked on 4 projects.
For the 2018/ 2019 period, we have 40 volunteers working on 8 projects.
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For the 2019/ 2020 period, we have 33 volunteers working on 10 projects.
PARTNERS AND SUPPORT
Project Impactive works with the kind support of these partner organisations and technical assistance from UCL lecturers
