VAJILLA MENGIN,
CUBIERTOS, VASOS Y
VAJILLA ADAPTADOS
A PERSONAS
INVIDENTES.
AUTORES: EDUARD
VILLAR, XAVIER
AGUIRRE E IGNACIO
AZNAR.
DISEÑO Y
ACCESIBILIDAD,
MÁSTER INGENIERÍA
DEL DISEÑO.
ETSID UNIVERSITAT
POLITÈCNICA DE
VALÈNCIA
MENGIN VAJILLA
(MENGIN TABLEWARE)
CUTLERY, GLASSES
AND DISHWARE
ADAPTED FOR THE
BLIND.
AUTHORS: EDUARD
VILLAR, XAVIER
AGUIRRE AND IGNACIO
AZNAR.
DESIGN AND
ACCESSIBILITY,
MASTER IN DESIGN
ENGINEERING.
ETSID UNIVERSITAT
POLITÈCNICA DE
VALÈNCIA
Integrative design
Solving problems and covering needs, providing well-being to society and people, is the objective of inclusive design.
A concept that affects the design for habitat and contract, and that seeks not only to “integrate” based on functionality,
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but also to generate beneficial and participatory experiences for people.
Why does inclusive design talk about experiences?
What we know as accessible design
consists of the creation of products aimed at
overcoming limitations and addressing the diversity
of physical or cognitive characteristics
that can occur in society; in inclusive design,
the result of the experience must prevail over
its state of limitation. Its purpose, therefore, is,
in addition to solving a problem, to provide sensations
of well-being and stimulating improvement
for the user, which promotes autonomy
and self-development. In this sense, those projects
selected from the exhibition “Inclusive
and Social Design” organized by the Higher
Technical School of Design Engineering and
Las Naves in Valencia, offer a vision of this
approach with different applications for areas
of interest (or linked) with contract business.
From “design for all” to inclusive design
The architect Ronald Mace coined the term
“universal design” or “design for all” in the
United States in the late 1980s. This concept
proposed seven principles to take into account
when designing so that products and services
are suitable for the greatest number of people
and situations, without the need to be adapted.
Equality of use, flexibility, simple and functional
use, understandable information, security,
minimum physical effort and size and adaptation
to the space in question were the premises
under which they began to be installed in
public and private spaces, in a generalized way,
railings, ramps, pavements insurance, braille
texts, etc. At the same time, inclusive design
emerges in Europe by expanding this concept
for the sake of diversity and greater adaptation,
and by facing individual and collective
issues that cannot be resolved with generalist
approaches.
Thus, the approximation of design to the needs
of people and their limitations, means
that equity must be considered as an objective;
because in many cases it is one more step
towards equality. And since the design of the
elements that make up the space, we inhabit
has a direct impact on the well-being of individuals
and society, it must maintain a commitment
to diversity. Because, as the curator
of the exhibition, Marina Puyuelo, points out,
“design is always social and is linked to the
lives of people and the planet”. That is why
inclusive design is at the service of everything
that contributes to making the world a better
place for everyone.