Accessibility Award 2018

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On 23 October, the Royal Academy received the Bevica Foundation's Accessibility Award 2018. The Academy received the award for its special efforts to make universal design and accessibility a natural part of students' professional self-understanding. This means that accessibility does not have to be specially designed special solutions or add-ons. Not something you just have to remember to check. Accessibility, on the other hand, must be a natural part of the design process and something that has been thought of right from the start.

At the ceremony, the Bevica Foundation said: “The Bevica Foundation would like to acknowledge the Royal Academy's efforts and ambition. It's not just about ensuring accessibility for people with disabilities, it concerns all of us -- the parents with the stroller, the unfortunate skier with the broken leg and the growing group of elderly people. Therefore, accessibility must be a natural part of architecture and design”, said our former chairman of the Bevica Foundation, Torben Svanberg.

In connection with the award ceremony, the students of the academy showed the result of their 14-day workshop on the theme Different Bodies.