Why Design Should Include Everyone?
Why design should include everyone?
Design isn’t something we think about often. We design for ourselves, the normal size, and the disabled. But do we ever design for the little people? Not children but actual little people, achondroplasia is the most common form of dwarfism. However, it only occurs in 1 in 20,000 births, so is this why we don’t design for them, because of how uncommon they were? Sinead Burke is a little person who talks about the disadvantages of her everyday life. She believes everyday design should be made accessible to everyone, even if the number of them is uncommon. Personally I believe that Sinead Burke has an amazing idea, it would benefit many people and change their everyday life.
This T.E.D talk reminds me of ‘Keynote Address to the 2004 Democratic National Convention’ by Barack Obama. In his speech he says “ If there’s a child on the South side of the Chicago who can’t read, that matters to me, even if it’s not my child”. Here Obama is talking about the children who can’t read and later makes a plan to fix this problem. Throughout Sinead’s T.E.D talk she’s talking about the problem she and others have achondroplasia. She also gives useful tips and ideas to fix these problems. This relates to when Obama was talking about fixing the problem of children not being able to read, both are very fixable problems.
The American Dream. I wonder how many people have asked Sinead what her American Dream is. We all what she’d say or at least have an idea of what she’d say, she would want life to stop being so difficult. To have design incorporate everyone and not to single people out, she would want all design to be accessible for everyone no matter the size. This is her American Dream and it can be achieved. So why hasn’t it been tried or achieved yet?If you go to White Water and you go into the public restrooms you’ll find a child sized toilet. Now this isn’t exactly made for little people but it’s a step to prove we can make anything accessible for anyone.
The way Sinead used her own terrible experiences to talk and explain to the crowd why things need to change was inspiring. I liked the way she connected to the audience and gave interesting facts about achondroplasia and the disadvantages of living with it. From this video I’ve learned many facts about achondroplasia and living with it. I’ve also found a new idea for design to involve everyone and never just to single out one group of people.
Design isn’t something we think about often. We design for ourselves, the normal size, and the disabled. But do we ever design for the little people? Not children but actual little people, achondroplasia is the most common form of dwarfism. However, it only occurs in 1 in 20,000 births, so is this why we don’t design for them, because of how uncommon they were? Sinead Burke is a little person who talks about the disadvantages of her everyday life. She believes everyday design should be made accessible to everyone, even if the number of them is uncommon. Personally I believe that Sinead Burke has an amazing idea, it would benefit many people and change their everyday life.
This T.E.D talk reminds me of ‘Keynote Address to the 2004 Democratic National Convention’ by Barack Obama. In his speech he says “ If there’s a child on the South side of the Chicago who can’t read, that matters to me, even if it’s not my child”. Here Obama is talking about the children who can’t read and later makes a plan to fix this problem. Throughout Sinead’s T.E.D talk she’s talking about the problem she and others have achondroplasia. She also gives useful tips and ideas to fix these problems. This relates to when Obama was talking about fixing the problem of children not being able to read, both are very fixable problems.
The American Dream. I wonder how many people have asked Sinead what her American Dream is. We all what she’d say or at least have an idea of what she’d say, she would want life to stop being so difficult. To have design incorporate everyone and not to single people out, she would want all design to be accessible for everyone no matter the size. This is her American Dream and it can be achieved. So why hasn’t it been tried or achieved yet?If you go to White Water and you go into the public restrooms you’ll find a child sized toilet. Now this isn’t exactly made for little people but it’s a step to prove we can make anything accessible for anyone.
The way Sinead used her own terrible experiences to talk and explain to the crowd why things need to change was inspiring. I liked the way she connected to the audience and gave interesting facts about achondroplasia and the disadvantages of living with it. From this video I’ve learned many facts about achondroplasia and living with it. I’ve also found a new idea for design to involve everyone and never just to single out one group of people.