Abstract
<p>This essay seeks to position the experiences of people who live with disabilities in their interactions with the built environment that surrounds them. It argues, in part, that a hands-on approach such as co-design<em>, </em>which relates the personal experiences of individuals with the processes of design, can promote the inclusion of people living with disabilities. This paper also recognizes the existence and possibility of alterations to the built environment initiated by people with disabilities who, despite their disabilities, transform their surroundings to better their conditions. For these types of processes, the term <em>user-initiated design –</em>UID- can be defined, becoming a tool of empowerment for these individuals. These writings briefly develop the concept of user participation in design processes, analyze the use of empathic participation methods utilized in design processes with disabled individuals, and conclude that design directed towards this population cohort requires a participation that involves knowledge based on these individuals, and which should be deemed irreplaceable. </p>
Highlights
A disability is a condition that can affect anyone at any given moment, as consequence of a combination of factors at the physical, emotional and environmental levels
This text seeks to position the experiences of people living with disabilities in their interactions with the built environment and proposes that the design directed towards this population cohort requires participation that involves knowledge based on these individuals, and which should be deemed irreplaceable
This text is structured in three parts: the first briefly presents developments in the fields of design that entail the element of co-design; the second recalls methodological participative and empathic estimates used in co-design, and analyzes them in the context of disability studies and disability rights
Summary
A disability is a condition that can affect anyone at any given moment, as consequence of a combination of factors at the physical, emotional and environmental levels. To include the experience of PWD in processes of design requires a thorough understanding of mankind’s innate ability to design, as well as the mechanisms designed to collect information that are only granted through experience This text seeks to position the experiences of people living with disabilities in their interactions with the built environment and proposes that the design directed towards this population cohort requires participation that involves knowledge based on these individuals, and which should be deemed irreplaceable. Design can be recognized as a subcategory of art related to the execution of professions such as architecture or industrial, graphic or interior design, where it links with the projection of functional elements in the built environment through trends and aesthetic designs It has been an engraved process in the rational and rigorous thinking in science, allowing the application of solutions to problems. The segment will present a brief journey through the history of design that entails the practice of co-design
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