Jeremy Myerson

Jeremy Myerson is a design writer and academic. He is the Helen Hamlyn Professor of Design at the Royal College of Art, a Visiting Fellow in the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing at the University of Oxford, and Director of the WORKTECH Academy, a global knowledge network on the future of work.

He co-founded the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design at the RCA in 1999 and was its director for 16 years, helping to pioneer the practice of inclusive design in response to population ageing. He is the author of more than 20 books on different aspects of design and innovation. In 2017 he curated the Design Museum exhibition New Old: Design for Our Future Selves, which is now touring internationally.

Link to paper summarising key points from keynote presentation. (LINK)