Co-Designing for Inclusion
The project was presented at the conference:
Teaching Artistic Research in 2018 in Vienna.
Members for the conference: R.Dezsö-Dinnyés, L. Lukács, H.Mannsberger, R. Mateus-Berr, G.Urrutia-Reyes, J. Rosoklija, S.Trimmel
Group Constellation in Buedapest: B. Szalai
Working in multidisciplinary teams the
workshop aimed to propose alternatives and inclusive designs for kids with
Disabilities from the Csillagház school in Budapest.
Through a co-design approach in
interdisciplinary international teams - 17 students of social design and
teacher education from Austria, and design students from Hungary - developed
individualized design tools for children with special needs.
This project explores the engagement with
children with multiple disabilities and designing things for them in order to
develop empathic and inter/transdisciplinary skills. It analyses a
practice-based approach in design though observation, self-reflection,
documentation and interviews conducted by students. The methods used were
“research through design, practice-based” and “design thinking”.
Topic of the sub-
group constellation: Equality
We started the creative process raising some
questions in order to understand the different thinking’s, cultures, and
getting to know each other and our abilities and contributions for this
project.
What does EQUALITY means
for the team?
In what type of context can we say that we
could interact in an honest level with a kid with certain disability? (Honest
meaning not letting them win a game by purpose for example).
What
could be “that thing” that could create a horizontal communication between you
and the kid with disability?
What is the
connexion between a kid with certain disability and a person with
non-disability? What is the union?
Creating together…..
A melody!
– After long debates trying to give answer to
the previous questions, we discovered that when we sing together everybody has
a role in the song/melody making. There is a final outcome that we always
create together. Without noticing, or giving any type of relevance, every day
there is an opportunity to create special connections with others when we sing
together a song we like.
That’s
how we started with the concept of THE CHOIR
GAME where everybody have a responsibility: to give a single tune from (DO
RE MI FA SO LA SI DO).
By giving one instrument with one tune to
each player, (kid with disability, kid with non-disability, or adults) we could
create a path that leads to a melody. At the end of the game, all the
participants apart from having the happy feeling of not only of belonging to something will also
have the feeling of success of having
the Melody finished. A melody was
created where everybody had the same rules, no matter the abilities.
At the end of the game, the happy feeling of
not only to belong to something but also the success of creating a melody together
no matter the abilities could be increased.
Technical aspect: At this stage the
instruments would be connected with a rope or wire in order to create the path of
the melody and help the players to follow up the order.
About the
instrument/prototyping:
· Instruments with
quite attractive shape the eye and easy to use.
· Every instrument will
have the same role and responsibility to create the group sound.
· A dynamic that could
motivate other senses.
· Friendly for the
different abilities of the kids to hold something.
