Our Exclusive Society

Rachel Rodney

• Publisher: New Degree Press
• Year: 2020
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781641378529
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Discrimination & Race Relations
• Index: Social Sciences

Inclusive design is the practice of making a product, service, or environment optimized for inclusion. Almost any system that has people as its end-user can benefit from inclusive design.

Our Exclusive Society: Pathways Toward Inclusion by Design takes a look at many exclusive areas of modern society and the leaders that are inclusifying them. In this book, you'll read amazing stories from people like:

• Dr. Lauren Bricker, a leading woman in tech and how she creates inclusive communities at work.
• Lynsay Whelan, an occupational therapist who uses local resources to design life changing prosthetic devices.
• Bhargavi Rao, an environmental scientist who fights to raise awareness of human and constitutional rights for her fellow citizens.

Our Exclusive Society is for anyone who creates experiences. It's a starting point for thinking about the communities you belong to and the ways in which they're designed. Here's the first step to building our inclusive society.

Appendix

Introduction

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United Nations. “The Universal Declaration of Human Rights.” Universal Declaration of Human Rights. https://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/index.html.

World Health Organization. “Disability and Health.” Newsroom. https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/disability-and-health.

The TL;DR History of Inclusive Design

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Connell, Bettye Rose, Mike Jones, Ron Mace, Jim Mueller, Abir Mullick, Elaine Ostroff, Jon Sanford, Ed Steinfeld, Molly Story, and Gregg Vanderheiden. “The Principles of Universal Design.” April 1, 1997. https://projects.ncsu.edu/ncsu/design/cud/about_ud/udprinciplestext.htm?fbclid=IwAR1761UflQV9aF-xfilm5ILVbgj-lIEXDF2uOWS6-mgx5MTnYNYcpfImtcw.

Institute for Human Centered Design. “History.” Inclusive Design. https://www.humancentereddesign.org/inclusive-design/history.

Jim Thatcher, Paul Bohman, Michael Burks, Cynthia Waddell, Bob Regan, Shawn Lawton Henry, and Mark Urban. Constructing Accessible Websites (Apress, 2002).

Lambert, Steven. “Designing for Accessibility and Inclusion.” Smashing Magazine, April 9, 2018. https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2018/04/designing-accessibility-inclusion/.

I Had No One to Hug

Bichell, Rae Ellen. “Scientists Start to Tease Out the Subtler Ways Racism Hurts Health.” NPR, November 11, 2017. https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/11/11/562623815/scientists-start-to-tease-out-the-subtler-ways-racism-hurts-health.

“Data Leak Reveals How China ‘Brainwashes’ Uighurs in Prison Camps.” BBC. November 24, 2019. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-50511063.

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Sexism...It’s Everywhere

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Table of contents

• Contents
• Introduction
• Introduction to Inclusive Design
• The TL;DR History of Inclusive Design
• I Had No One to Hug
• Inclusive Makers
• Sexism...It’s Everywhere
• The Complexities of Accessibility
• Ageism, a Backwards Phenomenon
• A Comparison Between Design and Politics
• Let’s Talk Business
• Including Cultures
• Innovating for Inclusion
• Intersectionality of Inclusion
• Inclusify Your Mind
• Effective-izing Assumptions
• What Do You Mean, Normal?
• Empathy: A Trend? Let’s Not.
• Inclusify Your Actions
• “Ally Is a Verb”
• Building Our Inclusive Society
• Acknowledgments
• Appendix