Research Summation

Inclusive Design

Stuart Steinfort S3137921

The Problem

• Society as a whole cannot continue to assume that private automobile ownership and its subsequent usage can be sustained with the predicament of climate change and substantial global population growth.

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Introduction:

• Melbourne could feasibly become a car free environment, enabling a rethink of how existing infrastructure can be tailored to suite societies needs.

• This project with critically examine tram transportation, through inclusive design, in order to uncover developing themes of use and contextualise future user needs.

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Proposed Research

The research for this project will comprise:

• Formal academic research.

• User based interviews.• 3D Participatory

toolkit based user groups.

• Camera Journals.• Design by making and

sketching. www.age.com.au

Formal Research

• Historical review of tram development in both a location and technical sense.

• Government Policy.

• Applicable car free city policy.

• Relevant examples such as London’s car tax.

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Camera Journal

• Documentation of current users.

• Asking users to create a camera journal of their daily travels.

• This form of photography will capture tram travel in an effort identify micro events that offer insight into future uses of tram transportation.

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Ethnographic Studies

• In ethnography the researcher immerses themself in the lifestyle and cultural groups being studied (Dawson, 2007). It specifically seeks the everyday nature of behaviour and as a result the hypotheses are often not formed at the beginning of the research.

• Seeks to make the “implicit explicit.” Everyday techniques and actions of little importance to the user can be observed, recorded and feed into the design process. (Crocket & Redvers-Mutton, 2002)

• The process is applicable in observing and seeking to under micro events with regular users.

3D Participatory Toolkit

• “Participatory research attempts to present people as researchers themselves in pursuit of answers to the question of their daily struggle and survival.” (Tandon, 1988, p.7)

• I intend to create a 3D participatory research toolkit which can be used in conjunction with research groups in order to explore what a tram is, and how it could be.

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Application of Inclusive Design

• Inclusive design will create the core of the design and development phase.

• I will look to address the pyramid of the inclusive design.

• Specifically looking to the lowest level which encompasses with the majority of society.

• In doing this, I hope my design solutions become applicable to the entire inclusive design pyramid.

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Design Development

• Tools that will be used:

• Drawing and sketching

• CAiD and drawing software

• Model making• Rapid prototyping• Design by experiment.

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Envisaged Outcomes

What Could it be?

Bangert, A, 2004, “Colani: Fifty Years if Designing the future,” Thames & Hudson, England.

Or this?

Bangert, A, 2004, “Colani: Fifty Years if Designing the future,” Thames & Hudson, England.

References

• Bangert, A, 2004, “Colani: Fifty Years if Designing the future,” Thames & Hudson, England.

• Park, P (Ed), 1993, “Voices of Change: Participatory Research in the United States and Canada,” Bergin & Garvey, London, England.

• Whyte, W (Ed), 1991, “Participatory Action Research,” Sage Publications, California, United States of America.

• McTaggart, R, 1997, “Participatory Action Research,” State University of New York Press, New York, United States of America.

• Pink, S, 2001, “Doing Visual Ethnography,” Sage Publications, California, United States of America.

• Lucienne, M, 2000, “In Sight: A guide to design with low vision in mind,” RotoVision.