"I think it's so important what the Bevica Foundation does with this scholarship, because they rethought the whole training of Universal Design experts, and are bringing it out of the walls of education or university colleges. They brought it into the world."
All the Bevica Scholarship project proposals have been handed in, and it's now up to the international jury to evaluate them. We caught up with Jasmien Herssens, inclusive designer, educator, architect, researcher, entrepreneur and member of the Bevica Scholarship Programme Jury, for a chat about the programme. Hear what she has to say about the impact of our Scholarship Programme in the video below 👇
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I think it's so important
what The Bevica Foundation does with this scholarship,
because they rethought the whole training
of universal design experts and bring it out of the walls of education
or university colleges. They brought it into the world. I think this is the most beautiful thing
that you can do for a domain like universal design
that is talking about human beings and creating communities and platforms
to bring people together. So it's actually at the heart of universal design to leave
no one behind and to listen to everybody. So with this scholarship students
from different disciplines, different universities,
were all invited to apply, which was such an enrichment for
themselves to connect with other students, but also they brought in different
cultures of different departments, different universities and different
topics where they were interested in. So there were different ways to discuss. It was, again, a new way of connecting. So I see a lot of opportunities
in this model because it reshapes the thinking of educating
universal design experts, trainers, teachers. And it's also teases the professors to rethink, their way of thinking and also to challenge them
to keep on learning lifelong learning.
