A designer's approach: how can autistic adults with learning disabilities be involved in the design process?

Socio-materiality of trust: co-design with a resource limited community organisation

“…In their participatory design work, between residents and city planners, they highlight how material decision-making asserted power granting unwitting trust to the expertise associated with the planning professionals. Gaudion et al (2015) highlight the use of a wide variety of materials and engagement methods (e.g. involving food and cooking) in forming positive trusting relationships between all participants in their work with autistic adults and a network of carers (ibid).…”

Design, User Experience, and Usability: Design Thinking and Methods

“…Whilst an evaluation of Hubble Bubble was carried out, due to the word constraints of this paper it is impossible to describe in detail the outcome, but it is fair to say the evaluation process was difficult on many levels [83]. This project has taken a novel approach that inverts a person's deficits to strengths by creating a design framework termed the Triad of Strengths, in which a person's sensory preferences, special interests and action capabilities can help guide the design process.…”

Sonic Accessibility: Increasing Social Equity Through the Inclusive Design of Sound in Museums and Heritage Sites

“…; Gaudion et al. ). Such agendas advocate an increase in accessibility provision and a reframing of designer's ideology in relation to learning disabled people, transcending the established perspective of physical and visual accessibility and the ‘checklist approach’ to Inclusive Design that prioritises the needs of physically or visually disabled patrons (Hamraie ).…”

“…Consequently, learning disabled people can remain at the bottom of a hierarchy of impairments (Deal 2010;Docherty et al 2010) which is reinforced by wider accessibility considerations or diversity objectives in cultural institutions that remain neutral in relation to issues of power and privilege (Ahmed 2012). The impact of the auditory environment on the mood and comfort of people with learning disabilities is an emerging area within acoustics and soundscape research (Van den Bosch et al 2017) and the field of design and neurodivergence is at the forefront of Inclusive Design research in the UK (Brereton et al 2015;Gaudion et al 2015). Such agendas advocate an increase in accessibility provision and a reframing of designer's ideology in relation to learning disabled people, transcending the established perspective of physical and visual accessibility and the 'checklist approach' to Inclusive Design that prioritises the needs of physically or visually disabled patrons (Hamraie 2016).…”