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Biography
Graham Pullin is a designer and author of the monograph Design Meets Disability (The MIT Press, 2009; Japanese edition O'Reilly Japan, 2022). He is a Professor of Design and Disability at DJCAD where he co-founded Studio Ordinary which brings together disabled and non-disabled researchers across critical disability studies and design.
Together with disabled mentors, they are exploring alternative futures for augmented communication on the Wellcome Trust collaboration Imagining Technologies for Disability Futures. This builds on a mid-career PhD entitled 17 ways to say yes. Previous projects include the EPSRC-funded Hands of X, which became an exhibition at V&A Dundee, and a senior fellowship with The Healthcare Improvement Studies Institute starting new conversations between healthcare, disability and culture.
Graham teaches interaction design, product design and other programmes, and studio projects including the Museum of Lost Interactions, Atelier Copper and Objects for Grandpeople. His students' work features in the film Inclusive, by Microsoft, and the influence on Microsoft's own inclusive design programme is just one example in an impact case study submitted for REF 2021.
Previously, Graham was a studio head at the design consultancy IDEO, leading multidisciplinary teams on projects as diverse as commercial Vodafone Simply phones for people in their 50s, concept hearing–enabling furniture for the HearWear exhibition at the V&A Museum, London, and the critical design project Social Mobiles that was exhibited in Tokyo, Ars Electronica and MoMA.
Media availability
I am available for media commentary on my research.
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Areas of expertise
- Accessibility/disability
- Art and design
- Digital technology
- Technology
Awards
Award | Year |
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Engagement Project of the Year | 2018 |
Stories
Feature
A team of researchers from the University of Dundee have received funding to develop a wheelchair-friendly lab coat, and they’re looking for lab users to get involved in the project.
![A student in graduation robes is in an image on the left. The image to the right contains two men wearing glasses, one looks at the other smiling.](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2022-08/Lab%20coats.jpg?h=46fe20cd&itok=BbED-bh7)
Impact case study
Challenging conventional approaches to disability through inclusive design practices and human-centred research.
![People at the V&A Dundee](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2022-05/HandsofX_at_VandA_Dundee.jpg?h=a130fd67&itok=YkRHU6lN)
Feature
Studio Ordinary is a meeting of design research and disability studies, of creative and critical thinking.
![a rack of pigeonholes containing boxes with coloured dots on them, and the title 'hands of x' above](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2021-06/design-meets-disability-feature.jpg?h=160995c1&itok=RA8Gz4Wz)