Inclusive design and making in practice: Bringing bodily experience into closer contact with making

Luck examines inclusive design as it happens through material practices, interaction and making. The article’s EDI contribution is to show that embodied knowledge is not merely collected through interviews and then translated by designers; it can enter design directly through shared manipulation, demonstration and negotiation. This is important for disability inclusion because verbal accounts or abstract requirements may not capture tacit, sensory and bodily dimensions of experience. The study strengthens the case for participatory settings in which people can influence emerging forms rather than only react to finished proposals. It also helps designers recognise how materials and prototypes mediate whose knowledge becomes visible. The paper therefore connects co-design, embodiment and epistemic inclusion in a way that is directly relevant to practice.