Difference : sketching, visualising and challenging Universal Design in Sweden
(2024) In Design for All, India 19(6 (June)). p.2-197- Abstract
- This edition of Design for All, India has the title “Difference – Sketching, Visualising and Challenging Universal Design in Sweden”. Human difference can be conceptualised in the form of labels attached to people, such as ‘people with disabilities’ or ‘people without disabilities’ . Such categorisations can be investigated with regards to how they are used to separate people and to assign values to them, and how such processes function to create inequality and stigma. Any UD approach that has all people as the target group will need to deal with categorisations of people in some way. For instance, design approaches based on inclusion identify and gradually add more and more groups of people. In contrast with this, approaches based on what... (More)
- This edition of Design for All, India has the title “Difference – Sketching, Visualising and Challenging Universal Design in Sweden”. Human difference can be conceptualised in the form of labels attached to people, such as ‘people with disabilities’ or ‘people without disabilities’ . Such categorisations can be investigated with regards to how they are used to separate people and to assign values to them, and how such processes function to create inequality and stigma. Any UD approach that has all people as the target group will need to deal with categorisations of people in some way. For instance, design approaches based on inclusion identify and gradually add more and more groups of people. In contrast with this, approaches based on what we call ‘nonclusion’ challenge this way of taking the categorisation of people for granted. Instead, nonclusive design resists categorisations of bodies and roles and avoids presupposed limits regarding whom the design is meant for. Nonclusion is relevant for Graphic design, Physical products and environments, Text and image, and Information and communication technology. In brief, a nonclusive take on human difference means a critical approach to the categorisation of people, by considering e.g., functions and situational factors, to see how human variation can be best met by variation in the designed environment, without a need for discriminating and stigmatising categorisation (Less)
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- 2024-06-19
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- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Universal design, Design for all, Visualization, City planning
- in
- Design for All, India
- editor
- Hedvall, Per-Olof
LU
and Ericsson, Stina
- volume
- 19
- issue
- 6 (June)
- pages
- 197 pages
- ISSN
- 2582-8304
- project
- The Syntax of Equality, A Tool for Expressing and Implementing Equality and Inclusion
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
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- e8953540-9d57-4bff-a75f-c9543bcfdaeb
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abstract = {{This edition of Design for All, India has the title “Difference – Sketching, Visualising and Challenging Universal Design in Sweden”. Human difference can be conceptualised in the form of labels attached to people, such as ‘people with disabilities’ or ‘people without disabilities’ . Such categorisations can be investigated with regards to how they are used to separate people and to assign values to them, and how such processes function to create inequality and stigma. Any UD approach that has all people as the target group will need to deal with categorisations of people in some way. For instance, design approaches based on inclusion identify and gradually add more and more groups of people. In contrast with this, approaches based on what we call ‘nonclusion’ challenge this way of taking the categorisation of people for granted. Instead, nonclusive design resists categorisations of bodies and roles and avoids presupposed limits regarding whom the design is meant for. Nonclusion is relevant for Graphic design, Physical products and environments, Text and image, and Information and communication technology. In brief, a nonclusive take on human difference means a critical approach to the categorisation of people, by considering e.g., functions and situational factors, to see how human variation can be best met by variation in the designed environment, without a need for discriminating and stigmatising categorisation}},
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url = {{http://designforall.in/?mdocs-file=2468}},
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