Universal Design Education has become a worldwide movement but demonstrated limited acceptanceamongst architecture, planning and design schools in India. There are no specialized courses onuniversal design in the country, this is perhaps because the benefits of designing in a more inclusiveway are not immediately apparent and also because there are many other pressing issues that requireattention. Center for Human Centric Research in School of Planning and Architecture Bhopal organizesan annual National Student Design Competition on Universal Design (NSDC-UD) together with aHands-on Workshop and Exhibition, to explore creative ways to offer universal design to the studentsof diverse design disciplines in the country. The center has organized three such events since 2010,which provided an intense and experiential universal design understanding to the students. The eventsalso provided an opportunity to explore Student Design Competition as a pedagogical tool to meeteducational objectives that the school is striving to include in Academic Curricula. The paper presentsthis annual academic event in brief and summarizes the lessons learnt for the contextual aptness ofUniversal Design and Universal Design Education.
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