About RAWE

RAWE Project researches, reviews, and reimagines how we design our environment to realize more radically accessible and wildly engaging choices for how we live, work, and play. RAWE Project collaborates with all built environment stakeholders from developers and designers to community members and policy makers in order to to learn, share, and create design that enables and empowers people of all ages.

RAWE Project is led by Carly Dickson, a designer, researcher and advocate focused on creating and promoting equitable experiences of radically accessible wildly engaging environments for people of all ages. Carly is an Access and Inclusive Environments Consultant at Arup and co-leads a Design Think Tank at the London School of Architecture. Carly previously worked at the Royal College of Art on the Design Age Institute’s team as a Knowledge Exchange Fellow, sharing the Institute’s work and supporting new opportunities to collaboratively create more desirable products, services, and environments that enable healthy and happy ageing. Prior to the Design Age Institute, Carly worked across various design and research roles, most recently as an architectural designer at Alison Brooks Architects and as the co-author and designer of the book Just Living: Homes for Our Future Selves. She has also worked as a design researcher for the MIT AgeLab and an inclusive design consultant for Motionspot. Carly graduated with a Masters in Architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design in 2017 and a B.A. in Architectural Theory from Harvard College in 2012.

Carly, as a Rick Hansen Foundation Accessibility Certification Professional (RHFAC), can conduct RHFAC accessibility surveys of existing buildings and pre-construction drawings of design proposals. She is committed to finding the most desirable accessible design ideas for existing and proposed buildings and spaces. Her experience working in architecture enables her to creatively support design teams during the design process, ideally from the very beginning in order to build inclusive design principles into the project from the start rather than bolt them on at the end.

Interested in researching, reviewing, reimagining or realizing radically accessible wildly engaging design?

Let’s chat: carlydickson@raweproject.com