Inclusive Workplaces: challenges and opportunities when designing inclusive and accessible buildings 

With Matteo Zallio, Assistant Professor, University of Cambridge
Inclusive Design has been widely promoted in the fields of product, engineering, and user experience design.
Despite the educational efforts made by scientists, practitioners, and institutions to raise awareness about accessibility and inclusion, Inclusive Design has not been widely embraced in architectural design practice, where it is often associated with design for disability.
With this presentation Matteo shares a recent multidisciplinary study, spanning behavioural science, ergonomics, and the social sciences of architecture, exploring the challenges architectural design practitioners face when designing inclusive workplaces, and identifying opportunities to promote the adoption of Inclusive Design.
The results of a questionnaire completed by 114 architectural design practitioners underscore the lack of client awareness of the benefits of inclusive design, highlight the important role practitioners can play in advocating for Inclusive Design, and emphasise the need to develop practices and tools that enhance the design and post-design phases of workplaces to ensure inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility.
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