Developing Empathy in Design Workshops for Functional Diversities

Abstract

Within the sustainable design experiences involved in the Functional Diversities, there is a need to establish workshops that make direct and concise reference to the different moments in which participants understand the dynamics of the other, their capacities and aspects to improve, and to solve needs from the understood perspective of the said being and not from a supposition of the designer and creator. That goal is part of the project workshops, which are based on the teaching methods used with different tools from different models in the field. These workshops turn Universal Design (UD) or Design for All (DA) into a more connected experience with Inclusive Design (ID), while also using empathy-based teaching methods to improve physical and/or digital design objects, which is similar to v This text seeks to highlight these dynamics and explicit guides under the guidelines of the various functionalities to be able to match and understand the needs from the initial phases of the project, but not as the only final validation.

Keywords: Inclusive Design, Design for empathy, Empathy pedagogists, Functional Diversities, Emphatic design

DOI: 10.54941/ahfe1004798