Inclusive Design
Inclusive Design
Inclusive design
Disability, NIDIS and the role of design
Understand the social context in which the designer considers the senses
Directly links to sensory spaces 1 and 2
We are looking at disability as a key factor in social inequality
Disability In Australia
Defined as a restriction or impairment which restricts everyday activities and has lasted or is likely to last for at least 6 months
- 1 in 5 4.3 mil have a disability
- 3rdof our household have a person
- 3 million carers – for disability
- 3 million with milder disability
- Even more people in the support sectors
Australia was one of the first nations to ratify the united convention on the rights of persons with disabilities.
- UN Australia
- Purpose is to promote, protect and ensure the full and equal employment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms for all people with disability and to promote respect for their inherit dignity
Disability increases the likely hood of experiencing social inequality
45% of people with a disability live below to poverty
- Unfortunately, they are perceived differently
- What is their history? Not everything can be seen
The unemployment rate is 10%
21 out of 29 OECD countries for
Very significant
- 41% of disability finished year 12
- 61% without disability
- 17%. Have completed a bachelor (disability) to 30%
What does inclusion look like?
How’s it going to make a difference? How can we make their life better
01 Inclusive society is a society for all where every individual has a n active role to play
02 People have the resources to participate in fields of working life, education, civic and political life
03 people are able to convert these into resources into a valued life
The high stakes of promoting inclusion: the principle of justice
This goes into the principles of jutice
We should be guided by the question of if intuitions promote human flourishing m
Inequality from a justice perspective
Amartya Sen:
- Individuals embodied capabilities for functioning
o Mot just skills are the way in which they cab use those ib their environment
o Opportunities to achieve particular states of being
To have a capability there needs to be a fit between individuals and their environment
- Must possess the personal abilities and knowledge that is required
3 the NDIS (national disability insurance scheme)
- The vison is to have an inclusive Australia society enables people with disability
o Achieve their potential as an equal
- Participate
- It has changed a lot in the last 20 years – still changing
- Definitely a long way to go
Two levels of NDIS
1. Funding and support services for people with permanent and significant disability – around 460,000 Australians
2. Through the information, linkages and capacity building program – facilitation and support for all people with disabilities to fulfil their potential in communities and organisations - 4.3 million Australians
The whole success of the NDIS relies on both
- This is crucial for our society and how we manage our future
The NDIS model: When individuals flourish, societies benefit
- The whole society
- People with disabilities generally can solve problems more efficiently
o They face more issues
Good for the economy - to sell to the government
- Future of the NDIS
- Follows the insurer model
- Profit = benefits
Let’s take employment for example
- Australia isn’t doing well in terms of employment
- Would rise between 100,00 and 320,000 by 2050
- Would add 32billion to the GDP
Role of design in addressing inequality under the NDIS
Nice ideas but what does it have to do with enhancing capabilities?
- The NDIS
o Not just about designing accessible communities but inclusive communities
o Going to change how we design – there will be new regulations
o New demographic – older generation
o 4.3 million Australians
Designing for change - designing with the community
What does this mean in terms of not fitting into spaces?
Merlu Ponty
- Where do we make the most of resources?
- The senses mediate our body understands what to do
Bourideu
- We approach each situation with a set of embodied understanding
- Our habitus is formed as a result of upbringing and then continues to be shaped by experiences
Need for universal design
National disability strategy: Need for universal design
- A lot of people mistake integration as inclusion
o In fact some of those are not being able to access these resources
o They aren’t benefiting
Universal designallows everyone, to the greatest extent possible to and regardless of age or disability to use building, transport, products and services without the need for specialised or adapted features.
Inclusion is much more powerful
then exclusion – Paul
How do we make sure that everyone is able to profit from environments and experiences?
8 goals of universal design
- Body fit – not just the matter of dimensions
- Comfort – feeling at ease in a space
- Awareness – does the space actually speak to you and help you understand what to do?
- Understanding – part of the encoding, people will come with different levels
- Wellness – the way in which t contributes to health
- Social integration – not segregated
- Personalisation – extent to which it works for individual
- Cultural appropriation – different identities
Need for inclusion – need to unpack
Next lecture:
Come from disability, right back to the senses and now we are joining that to disability
One you’re in the door do people feel they fit?
1. How do we conceptualise the space with the deliberate fit to disabilities and their environment?
2. Consider the senses: how do we promote feeling in place rather than out of place with respect to the 8 goals of universal design
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