The topic is directly related to the UN’s Leave No One Behind (LNOB) agenda. According to the United Nations, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities was passed in 2006 as the first comprehensive human rights treaty of the 21st century (United Nations). In 2007, Austria was one of the earliest countries to ratify the agreement and the country must hence ensure that people with disabilities have the same rights and participate in society in the same way as everyone else. All states are obliged to research and develop universal design in order to enable the accessibility and usability of products and services for all people without adaptations or specialized design. At the heart of the convention is the responsibility to change attitudes and approaches towards people with disabilities.
Insight#1 Inclusion
Insight
Uniting society through design
Due to the way they are designed, products and services can increase the exclusion but also the inclusion of certain population groups. Each of us can suffer from loss of performance as well as physical or mental limitations in the course of our lives. Good design can prevent that.
„We find it crucial to initiate a broader discourse on what skills and limitations are required for equal participation in society.“
Kathrina Dankl
We find it crucial to initiate a broader discourse on what skills and limitations are required for equal participation in society. This would mean that disability could affect people in different phases of their lives and could therefore offer disability greater acceptance and attention. There can be many reasons to feel excluded from society, for example through loss of performance after an accident, through physical or mental limitations, or through the change from one phase of life to another (e.g., through the transition from professional life to retirement, the end of a relationship, or after a coming out). Limitation and exclusion can also increase if technologies are not mastered and, for example, access to online banking or digital offices is not guaranteed.
„There can be many reasons to feel excluded from society, for example through loss of performance after an accident, through physical or mental limitations, or through the change from one phase of life to another.“
Kathrina Dankl
What role does design play in designing for inclusion?
Depending on the task, we actively involve relevant people as design partners. In this way, we support the equal participation of a diversity of individuals in the actual design process as well as in relation to specific systems, products, or services that promote inclusion.
The following questions can help companies and the public sector to identify potentials for inclusive design in their area:
— Which product, which service, or which system in your organization is suitable for reducing or preventing exclusion in our society or improving the life of a certain person or group?
— Where is potential for new ways of dialogue and new contact opportunities between different offers, proponents, institutions, services of the social system, and in people’s everyday lives?
Contact Studio Dankl if you want to become part of the inclusive agenda and use social participation as an opportunity for new markets.
Co-Creation Impuls
by STUDIO DANKL
Be inspired to think transformation in a participatory way.
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Keynote
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20-45 minutes
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Q&A
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possible in the organisation or online
The keynote communicates the added value of co-creation as a sustainable, strategic innovation tool for the public and private sector. Co-creation principles, cases and design process inspire decision makers and employees to think about transformation from a participatory perspective.
Focus content:
— Outlining the transformation of the design discipline from product design to strategic innovation tool
— Insight into co-creation principles, impact and design process
— Concrete, inspiring cases.
Target group: Employees, decision-makers and team, conference participants
Number of participants:
unlimited
Co-Creation Kickoff
by STUDIO DANKL
Learn to apply co-creation and start with a sound roadmap.
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Workshop
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4 hours
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in the organisation or at Impact Hub Vienna
The workshop is aimed at organisations that want to learn about co-creation and involve their team in decision-making processes on strategic innovations. With a focus on applied co-creation principles and methods, the workshop provides a deeper understanding of existing expertise, relevant stakeholders and first process/system/product/service prototypes as a roadmap for co-creation in your own organisation.
Focus content:
— Basic principles of co-creation
— Definition of relevant challenges from the participants' perspective
— Interactive prototyping for efficient validation of assumptions
— Start of a co-creation roadmap
Preparation for participants:
— Anecdote about challenge and success pattern
— Product, device or a production material from your field of work
Target group:
Decision-makers plus team from the public and private sector
Number of participants:
9-12 persons
Co-Creation Now
by STUDIO DANKL
Start into the future with a Co-Creation process tailor-made for you.
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Process design and support
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Depending on the project, approx. 4 to 18 months
Co-creation is contextual and situational, so no two design processes are exactly alike. From a pool of proven methods and creative processes, we put together a customised and project-dependent process. This is divided into a preparation phase in which the goal, desire or opportunity is identified, an implementation phase that covers idea generation, prototyping and implementation up to evaluation, and a post-project phase in which adaptations are made and projects are further supported.
Focus content:
— Based on a free initial consultation, offer for a tailor-made project divided into preparation phase
— implementation phase
— post-project phase
Target group:
Organisations from the public and private sector
Number of participants:
To be determined jointly for co-creation activities.
Co-Creation Ideas Ping-Pong Over Lunch
by STUDIO DANKL
If you have lunch with artist Timotheus Tomicek and designer Kathrina Dankl, you will be served new perspectives.
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Sparring/Exchange
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60 minutes
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Q&A
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Three centrally located venues in Vienna to choose from.
The artist, filmmaker, and photographer Timotheus Tomicek and the designer Kathrina Dankl share a long-standing tradition of occasional lunch dates. An unstructured exchange of ideas often opens up new perspectives on one’s own work. We invite project partners, customers, and other interested parties to have lunch with us. Everything else – including new perspectives – arises situationally during the conversations.
Focus content:
— Eating together
— Guest shares current topic, challenge, project idea
— Questions, reactions, perspectives, input, ideas from Timotheus and Kathrina
Target group:
Decision-makers from public and private organisations
Number of participants: 1