A shared space for understanding key concepts of EDI and design, that acknowledges the complexity and evolving nature of language.
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- Diversity
- “Diversity” is an essential value for any academic or cultural institution. Within design education, diversity strongly implies confronting the cultural, social, psychophysical, and economic differences of final users that will access and use the solutions designed. Accordingly, the term ‘users’ is here intended as anyone involved in the codesign process. Pedagogically, diversity emphasizes the idea that a single solution cannot be designed for all potential end-users since there are collateral factors that may affect the interaction with them—this also accounts for the environment where the actions performed due to an ‘inclusive’ effect are experienced in a living context. Instead, the use of holistic design processes in design education can motivate learners to examine customers’ origins, cultural habits, and attitudes as well as human, psychological, economic, and social abilities, both positive and negative. A pedagogic empowerment in the culture of creativity and invention that recognizes diversity as a virtue can eventually improve collaborations with business companies keen to open to social markets.
References
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Editors
Emilio Rossi
Alessia Brischetto