Design for Inclusion in the Field of Sailing Yachts. Design for All Approach for Small Sailing Boats
In recent years, a strong attention to the issues of human diversity, social inclusion and equality has developed in the field of yachting. This awareness has led to the creation of sailing boats much more closely-related to Design for Inclusion theories,
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Abstract In recent years, a strong attention to the issues of human diversity, social inclusion and equality has developed in the field of yachting. This awareness has led to the creation of sailing boats much more closely-related to Design for Inclusion theories, Universal Design (UD) and Design for All (DfA) in particular. In this paper, we present a final result of a Ph.D. research. The purpose of this study was to define the design guidelines for small sailing boats, based on the principles of DfA. To obtain this result, a comprehensive study of the state of the art was conducted, through the analysis of fifty small sailing boats. This study was carried out in two distinct phases. During the first one, all small sailing boats were filed and the characteristics of all case studies were observed. During the second one, comparative analyses between different boats were conducted. Starting from this analysis, we have drawn up design guidelines based on the principles of DfA. Keywords Design for inclusion all
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1 Introduction Contemporary society is witnessing a strong social change, both in terms of population’s ageing and of multiculturalism. Nowadays, sure enough, «human diversity in age, culture and ability is greater than ever. We now survive illness and injury and live with disability as never before» [1]. In recent years, the field of design has tried to meet the needs and aspirations of an increasingly complex population through the creation of new methods, such as Design for Inclusion. J. Lagatta (&) A. Vallicelli M. Di Nicolantonio A. Marano Department of Architecture, University of Chieti-Pescara, Viale Pindaro 42, 65127 Pescara, Italy e-mail: [email protected] M. Di Nicolantonio e-mail: [email protected] © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017 N.A. Stanton et al. (eds.), Advances in Human Aspects of Transportation, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing 484, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-41682-3_89
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It assumes that the creation of products, services and environments for standard person leads to the penalization or the exclusion of most of the population from their use. The moment has come to realize that badly-designed environments, products or services can cause disability, not the opposite. In other words, «good design enables, bad design disables» [1]. This consideration has led to a radical change in design approach towards users. The specificities of each person are no longer conceived as ability or disability but as differences, and diversity begins to be seen as a resource rather than as a problem. Everyone has equal dignity, rights and opportunities to actively participate in the daily life, without any barrier or obstacle. Therefore, the purpose of Design for Inclusion, as the name itself says, is not to exclude any individual from the use of a product, an environment or a service. Starting from the awareness that human diversity is a resource for contemporary social and economic develop
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