Avril Accolla, designer, scholar and author, researches, and designs accordingly, on Design for All\u00a0(DfA), Design Driven Social Innovation , Holistic Ergonomics, Strategic Design, Inclusive Design (ID).<\/p>\n
Graduated with distinction in Industrial Design, Faculty of Architecture, Politecnico di Milano, with the\u00a0thesis \u2018Designing the Normality\u2019, further specializes in Design Direction, Diversity, Marketing,Training Management, Prototyping.<\/p>\n
Designs and teaches courses in 15 universities in 7 different countries, adjunct professor since 2007, in\u00a02011 has been called as adjunct professor \u201con outsanding professional achievements\u201d by the Design\u00a0College of Politecnico di Milano, Italy. From 2014 is associate professor and senior researcher at Tongji\u00a0University, China.<\/p>\n
Project leader and teacher in customized courses and workshops for private companies (middle\u00a0management) and institutions, does keynotes and workshops in more then 40 conferences in 16\u00a0countries.<\/p>\n
Appointed International Scientific Director for the Spanish research project \u201cDfA Curricula in\u00a0Universities\u201d redesigning academic education for social innovation and integration.<\/p>\n
Among her publications, the book \u2018Design for All. The project for the real individual\u2019 ed. FrancoAngeli,\u00a0at its 3\u00ba reprint, founding the implementation of DfA approach in the industrial world, from its\u00a0strategic, production and commercial perspective.<\/p>\n
Professional works since 1998, in 2002 founded avrildesign (design consultancy on product, systems\u00a0and multimedia), particularly focusing on Design for All (DfA). Co-founder and partner of Confluenze\u00a0Design-Ergonomics-Marketing network, co-founder and partner of IDI Italian Designed Innovation ltd.<\/p>\n
Managed a production engineering R&D department focusing on industrialization of innovative\u00a0products also in mechanical and medical area.<\/p>\n
Designs and researches for multinational industrial groups (e.g. Legrand s.a., Lactalis s.a., Mars inc.),SMEs, institutions and NPOs (e.g. TNO, EU commission’s DG Enterprise, Tongji University, Milan\u00a0Chamber of Commerce) in different sectors (e.g. information network, medical, electrical, food, kids,\u00a0applied science, home).<\/p>\n
Created various invention patents and received several acknowledgements for her industrial designs\u00a0among which the Compasso d’Oro Hon.Men. And the DfA Quality Label.<\/p>\n
Co-Founder and Board Director of Italian Scholars in Eastern China, former Vice-President EIDD DfA<\/p>\n
Europe and Vice-president DfA Italia, have been Professional Member ADI and Professional Member\u00a0DfA.<\/p>\n
Works fluently in Italian, English and Spanish, notions of Chinese.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":626,"menu_order":77,"template":"","team_designation":[],"team_department":[],"class_list":["post-699","team","type-team","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inclusivedesign.org.cn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team\/699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inclusivedesign.org.cn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inclusivedesign.org.cn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/team"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inclusivedesign.org.cn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inclusivedesign.org.cn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inclusivedesign.org.cn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"team_designation","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inclusivedesign.org.cn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team_designation?post=699"},{"taxonomy":"team_department","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inclusivedesign.org.cn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team_department?post=699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}