Innovation
To us, innovation simply means doing things better than before.
The potential for disability innovation to shape global policy; corporate practice; investment strategies; cultural norms; individual behaviour and life outcomes is huge, and the technology revolution provides opportunities for scalability and access like never before.
We believe that disability innovation can change lives by forging new methods of participation, working with the poorest communities to harness the value of innovation.
Fit-for-purpose, affordable body-powered prostheses
Fit-for-purpose, affordable body-powered prostheses is designing upper limb prostheses that are both low cost and fit for their purpose and circumstance. The project is funded through the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Global Challenges Research Fund.
Digital Technology, to Revolutionise Wheelchair Provision with Motivation
As part of the AT2030 programme, the GDI Hub will support Motivation in testing their new wheelchair provision system in Kenya to evaluate the quality of the new designs and understand how distributed manufacturing through 3D printing could augment current wheelchair service provision models.
Changing Prosthetic Service Delivery with Amparo
The GDI Hub, as a part of the AT2030 Spark Innovation Sub Programme, has partnered with Amparo to support them in carrying out a clinical trial to evaluate how the Amparo Confidence Socket could help the provision of lower limb prosthetic in Kenya.
Trialing 3D Printed Bespoke Orthotics to Refugees with Humanity and Inclusion
GDI Hub has partnered with Humanity & Inclusion to support them with the research components of the project, to ensure that robust evidence is collected and analysed across all sites.
AT2030 Spark Innovation Sub-programme
For demand-based innovation to thrive we require a range of activities which can both adapt to good ideas coming from disabled people as well as working more closely with the market-shaping project to iterate business plans and create routes to market that were otherwise not available.
Body 2.0 - Extending ability through 3D printing technology
This project looked at identity and the changing perception of disabled people and disability. The primary focus was prosthetics and the use of new technologies including 3D printing to democratise prosthetics and allow individuals to customise their assistive devices in a timely and affordable way.
ARCCS - Accessible Routes from Crowdsourced Cloud Services
Ongoing research where we have developed a new technique for wheelchair localisation and surface determination using a fusion of GPS/IMU information and machine learning. Data captured helps wheelchair users travel in a more effective ways and share data to demonstrate accessibility issues and encourage improvements.
Tokyo 2020 - Inclusive Design Advice
GDI Hub share their knowledge and experience including helping the British Paralympic Association (BPA) with their base camp preparations for Tokyo 2020.
Enable Makeathon 2.0
Partnering with UCL and the International Committee of the Red Cross, the GDI Hub hosted the Enable Makeathon 2.0 in London. Five teams were selected to come to London to further develop their disability innovation ideas into new products and services over the course of a 16-day intensive ‘bootcamp’.
Innovate Now: How is GDI Hub Accelerating Disability Innovation in Kenya?
Innovate Now is a new partnership created through the AT2030 programme to accelerate disability innovation in Kenya and East Africa
