Mid Semester Presentation Pre Major Studio: Inclusive Design Stuart Steinfort S3137921
The Starting Point • Society as a whole cannot continue to assume that private automobile ownership and its subsequent usage can be sustained with the predicament of climate change and substantial global population growth.
www.nextbillion.net
The Automobile vs. CBD • Melbourne could feasibly become a car free environment, enabling a rethink of how existing infrastructure can be tailored to suite societies needs.
www.age.com.au
Inclusive Design • “The focus is not on age or disability, although these are very important issues, but in inclusivity at a social level, and achieving that through a range of products and services that together accommodate the whole population without stigma.”(Inclusive design, 2001) www.google.com
Historical Review • Tram application in Victoria • Living with the motor car: A Melbourne context. • Recent developments. • Governmental policy
www.age.com.au
http://www.mobility.unimelb.edu.au/incoming/study/videos/videogtext.html
Participatory Action Research • What is it? • “Participatory Action Research involves an imaginative leap from a world of ‘as it is’ to a glimpse of the world ’as it could be’.” Wadsworth (1999, p.6)
• How is it?
• Why is it applicable
Camera Journal • What is it? • to “deal with people are really doing and feeling” Myerson (2001, p.30)
• Why is it?
• Initial test results
Survey Construction • Sydney Road Festival • Tram Users
Direction from this point • Continue PAR Toolkit Prototyping. • Continue Survey, Camera Journals. • Start regular iterative design through prototyping.
References • Bangert, A, 2004, “Colani: Fifty Years if Designing the future,” Thames & Hudson, England. • Park, P (Ed), 1993, “Voices of Change: Participatory Research in the United States and Canada,” Bergin & Garvey, London, England. • Whyte, W (Ed), 1991, “Participatory Action Research,” Sage Publications, California, United States of America. • McTaggart, R, 1997, “Participatory Action Research,” State University of New York Press, New York, United States of America. • Pink, S, 2001, “Doing Visual Ethnography,” Sage Publications, California, United States of America. • Lucienne, M, 2000, “In Sight: A guide to design with low vision in mind,” RotoVision.