Safe as Houses The Helen Hamlyn Centre for

The Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design at the Royal College of Art first pioneered the concept of inclusive design in the early 1990s and it has gone on to build an extensive portfolio of collaborative projects over a long period

Debates about the restitution of cultural objects have been ongoing for many decades

designed by some of the leading British architects of the period including Basil Spence

A prolifically creative artistic polymath

but with finance

Safe as Houses The Helen Hamlyn Centre forOur relationship with our homes changed in 2020 when the pandemic known as Covid 19 led to enforced periods of self isolation, called 'lockdown'. We got to know our living spaces intimately and learned the greatest risk of infection was indoors through the breath we shared in poorly ventilated spaces, where microbial atmospheres could work their way inside, through every door, window and with every visitor. Our fear of such invisible threats will