There is no greater satisfaction for a design studio than seeing its products in use and visible in everyday life. Even more so than sales. This is the case of the Prime washbasin, selected by the RAI production for the television series ‘Lea – Un nuovo giorno‘ developed over 4 episodes.
Since several years, some members of the Design For All Italia Association have tried to revise the Wikipedia article that can be read online. Despite various attempts, the proposed changes are not accepted and a profound misunderstanding remains.
Project for disabled people, people with disabilities. It’s not a matter of language. It’s the cultural barriers that can have a big impact on society and on the project.
In May 2021 took place the elections of the new board of directors of the Association Design for All Italia, and with great pride we announce that the new president-elect is Francesco Rodighiero. The institutional role that he’ll cover for the next two years will be mainly directed to the dissemination of the values and principles of Design for All.
The Stockholm Declaration of 2004 leaves no space for misunderstanding and defines Design for All as “[…] design for human diversity, social inclusion and equality. [..]”. On a more personal level, I use the principles of DfA so that products for people with disabilities have the same treatment as products in the classic world of Design.
In February 2016, a hackathon was organized with people living with rheumatoid arthritis. An exciting experience of co-design for people with rheumatoid arthritis that left its mark. Because the focus of the projects to develop was not reduced to a pure functionalism, but functionalism became the condition to deal with much more important issues.
Design for All allows us to put ourselves in a privileged, more contemporary perspective, while at the same time expand the design analysis factors. It’s about time that Design for All is handled with the same commitment with which the theme of “sustainability” and its surroundings have been handled over the last decades.
