Sustainable and inclusive design: A matter of knowledge?

The article links inclusive and sustainable design through the question of knowledge. It highlights the experiential expertise of people whose interactions with environments reveal barriers that professional or technical knowledge may miss. Its EDI contribution is epistemic: inclusion requires changes in what counts as evidence and who is recognised as a knowledgeable participant. This matters because design teams can consult diverse users while still filtering their experience through dominant professional categories. The paper encourages designers to treat disabled people and other affected groups as contributors to design reasoning rather than sources of requirements. It enriches EDI-oriented design by connecting participation with knowledge justice and by showing that socially sustainable environments depend on learning from different embodied experiences.