Design for all
Country: Spain
Sector: Toys
Web address: http://www.mllorens.es/
Description of activities: Muñecas Llorens is a family company that manufactures dolls. From 1996, it participates in research projects on playing and disability through the Instituto Tecnológico del Juguete (AIJU).
Award nomination: For boosting a project, pioneer worldwide, aimed at designing dolls according to the principles of the 'Design for All', which resulted in the collection 'Dolls for All'. This collection has been conceived to reduce discrimination and increase the respect towards diversity of sensorial or movement abilities, consolidating the company in a new way of work and, as their slogan explains 'a new way of making dolls'.
País: España
Web address: https://www.caixaterrassa.es/ca/Obra-social/
Description of activities: The Obra Social de Caixa de Terrassa supports projects of different fields: social, cultural, training, environmental, sustainability, etc., with the ultimate aim of contributing to the development and progress of the whole community.
Award nomination: For its commitment with the Design for All and Personal Autonomy, evident from years through their pioneering initiatives both in the accessibility of their web and the creation of the Centre 'Adapted Home' of the President Torres Falguera Foundation, created to respond to the needs of people with functional limitations. Specially, for its promotion as sponsor of the 'Portal of Information for Personal Autonomy', that aims at becoming a web of reference for personal autonomy in Catalonia.
Country: Sweden
Population: 11.394 inhabitants (2007)
Web address: http://www.askersund.se/
Town Description: Askersund is a small town located besides the Vättern lake that has established as its aim to become a touristic destination of reference where all, visitors and citizens, can have access to any environment and to all the services they offer.
Award Nomination: For their work in the field of accessibility and design for all in which, departing from an initial diagnose, developed a detailed plan with specific actions that have led them to obtain the 'Flag of Towns and Cities for All' the last couple of years, via a global integration of the design for all perspective in all their projects and activities.
Country: Spain
Population:: 401.270 inhabitants (2009)
Dirección web: http://www.palmademallorca.es/
Town Description: Palma de Mallorca is the capital of the Balearic Islands, and a city that has, for a long time, been promoting the design for all through their program ‘Palma, a City for All’, which includes a participative board integrated by technicians and high-ranking officials from all the town hall departments and representative associations of the society of the town.
Award Nomination: For their commitment with the improvement of people’s quality of life, manifested with the 'Flag of Towns and Cities for All'. This is the third consecutive year that they receive this emblem of the Design for All Foundation, and in this period a very positive evolution of the integration of the values of the design for all at all administration levels has been highlighted. As an example, in 2009, the percentage of the annual investment budged addressed to improvement actions that take into account human diversity was of 12%, quite above the minimum required, 2%. The mayoress of Palma declared: 'It is a social responsibility to make available to all citizens every service in an accessible way as a pillar of the democratization of the city'.
