Clean Access Challenge – Design and Manufacturing Futures Lab

14th October 202021st January 2025By Chris SniderClean Access Challenge

Clean Access Challenge 7: Enabling Everyone

Problem Many people in the world face additional challenges created by limited mobility, physical, or mental impairment. These can make challenges of […]

25th June 202021st January 2025By Mark GoudswaardClean Access Challenge

Clean Access Challenge 5: Contact Free Cash

Problem Money, in the form of both notes and coins, provides contact surfaces that can be shared by many people in a […]

25th June 202021st January 2025By Mark GoudswaardClean Access Challenge, Project clean access

Clean Access Challenge 6: Shared Toilets

Problem As our schools, universities, offices and workplaces are adapted to life with coronavirus, facilities such as bathrooms will also need to […]

19th May 202021st January 2025By Chris CoxClean Access Challenge

Clean Access Challenge 4: Hackspaces

Problem The Hackspace, once exclusively synonymous with electronics and model airplane enthusiasts, has grown to become a globally acknowledged hub for social […]

19th May 202028th May 2020By Mark GoudswaardClean Access Challenge

Clean Access Challenge 2: Rural Gates and Stiles

Problem A well-known piece of countryside etiquette is to take nothing but photos and leave nothing but footprints. With the coronavirus outbreak […]

19th May 202021st January 2025By Chris SniderClean Access Challenge

Clean Access Challenge 1: A Toolkit for Queen’s Building

University buildings (like many other buildings throughout our cities) have many hundreds of users every day, all needing to move through and access a variety of different spaces, each with their own locks and access controls. In a world of social distancing, we need to think about how people move through buildings and access spaces efficiently, while preventing bottlenecks, minimising transmission risks, and still allowing important security and access controls to stay in place.

19th May 202021st January 2025By Harry FeltonClean Access Challenge

Clean Access Challenge 3: Hot Desking in a COVID-19 World

Several industries have been moving to a working environment involving hot desking. In a post-lockdown, COVID-19 world this poses potential issues with social distancing and transmission paths. This challenge asks how hot desking can be made possible whilst also trying to contain the transmission of COVID-19.