Ask Yourself the Right Question. To Know and Understand the Beauty of Human Diversity It Is the First Design Step: A Design for All Structured and Autopoietic Tool
The authors discuss the characteristics of a possible way of approaching the complexity of Human Diversity for the purpose of design, implementation and communication, within the cultural framework of inclusive and participatory design; a way which they have experimented and tested, during the European development of the theme "Active Aging" with a quite diverse cluster of actors which has been created to represent the abilities necessities aspirations of the elderly and the various parties involved in the construction and management of housing for the elderly. The authors, after years of practice, were also interested in understanding why some actors are not using the vast work produced worldwide in the field in the lasts decades nor are they familiar with it, and focused on building an easy multilevel approach, in which each level bears its own efficacy, in the attempt to engage those who might be interested but, for various reasons, are not on board yet.