Slides for a Keynote presentation at the Design for All Day at Aalto University (May 2015)

1. WHO COUNTS
ASALL?
VISIONS FOR RADICAL DESIGN FOR ALL
INCLUSIONSANDALLIANCES
Andrea Botero - Aalto University, School of Arts, Design and Architecture (Media Lab)
Design for All Day - May 29th – 2015

2. • I grew up and studied in the periphery of the “majority*
word” (Colombia)
• Ended up designing and doing research in the periphery of
the “hyper-developed world” (Finland)
• Good at designing/doing cardboard boxes but I am quite
happy with my career move to digital stuff many years ago.
* Term proposed by Bangladeshi photographer Shahidul Alam
Me

3. “…We now survive illness and injury and live with
disability as never before. Although today’s world is a
complex place, it is one of our own making, one in
which we therefore have the possibility – and the
responsibility – to base our designs on the principle of
inclusion...”*
• Taken from Design for All Declaration, Stockholm EIDD 2004
• http://dfaeurope.eu/what-is-dfa/dfa-documents/the-eidd-stockholm-declaration-2004/

4. INCLUSION
PARTICIPATION
COLLABORATION
?
All kinds of slippery connotations
Use “inclusion” to think through other 2 issues I am more familiar with

5. Exclusion Segregation
(separation)
Integration Inclusion
Image source: Shamelessly adapted from few images doing the rounds in social media

6. Exclusion
Integration Inclusion
Segregation
(separation)

7. Exclusion Segregation
Integration Inclusion

8. Exclusion
Integration Inclusion
Segregation
(separation)

9. Exclusion Segregation
Integration Inclusion(s)

10. Inclusion(s)
4 ALL (?)

11. (1)

12. “Unlearning sound etiquette - Christine Sun Kim”
by Todd Selby (2011) 10:51m
https://vimeo.com/31083172
I will only show
2-3 min clip from
this
Originally produced for Nowness (https://www.nowness.com/story/todd-selby-x-christine-sun-kim)

13. (1I)

15. The Accessible icon project site by Sara Hendren and Brian Glenney http://www.accessibleicon.org/

16. The icon’s visual evolution
The International Symbol of Access (ISA), also known as the (International) Wheelchair Symbol compared to the AIP
proposal (Image taken from the accessible icon project website)

17. (Image taken from the accessible icon project website)
NOTE: it is in the public domain and free of known copyright restrictions
the AIP graphic proposal

18. Note the use
of the word
“Stencil”
Why?

19. The icon is a starting place---a seed for conversations about accessibility, inclusion, and rights.
Image from the Accessible Icon Project website

20. From Instructables step by step guidelines at http://www.instructables.com/id/Stencil-for-Disability-Parking-Space/

21. (III)

22. An article in the Participatory Design Conference 2016 Collaborative extension of biodiversity monitoring protocols in the
bird watching community (see it here http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2662193)

23. Foto of bird doors in an old manor near Hasselt - Belgium
Are the birds participants? And can they also be collaborators? After
all this is all about protecting their habitats?
Long history of other interspecies collaborations (dogs, horses,
pigeons)

24. Is there such a thing as a “bird friendly city”? What does it look like? What does it not look like? Why bother? (2015) The
nature of cities (http://www.thenatureofcities.com)

25. Cats to Go NZ 2013 https://garethsworld.com/catstogo Its complicated !

26. (IV)

27. Examined Life - Judith Butler & Sunaura Taylor
By Astra Taylor (2008) 14:24m
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=k0HZaPkF6qE
I will only show
2-3 min clip from
this

28. INTERDEPENDANCE
CARING

29. Matters of
Fact
Matters of
Concern
(Latourian)
Matters of
Care
(Feminists STS
Puig de la Bella Casa)

30. ‘everything that we do to maintain, continue and repair “our world” so that we can live
in it as well as possible.That world includes our bodies, ourselves, and our environment,
all that we seek to interweave in a complex, life sustaining web’ (Tronto, 1993: 103; see
also Fisher and Tronto, 1990)

32. “Design for All aims to enable all people to have equal
opportunities to participate in every aspect of society. To
achieve this, the built environment, everyday objects,
services, culture and information – in short, everything
that is designed and made by people to be used by people
– must be accessible, convenient for everyone in society to
use and responsive to evolving human diversity.” *
* From The EIDD Stockholm Declaration (2004)

33. THANKS!
GRACIAS
andrea.botero@aalto.fi