human designers
disabled designers?
First of all the following statement needs to be done:
50% OF THE PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES IN MEXICO FEELS DISCRIMINATED
That’s right, days ago I read this in el universal (in Spanish) and even though for Mexican people this might not be a surprise, the surprising thing about this is that the president of the republic was the one that told this, together (as always) with promises and plans for the future.
And, guess what? This will be an enormous opportunity for Mexican designers to design something relevant for our country.
The project includes the application of tax stimulus for companies that give work for people with disabilities (the goal is to integrate more than 10,000 to the legal labor force) and evidently in order to do this, the companies will need to adequate their accessibility and workflow, in other words, someone will be willing to pay you for designing/re new spaces, tools, systems, etc…
I really believe that many of the situations in which a disabled person feels discriminated are caused because the design of the place, object or system has a failure in the human detail of it, for example the height of a public phone, the way in which a door is opened, the angle of a ramp, the signalization of a place, the access to the workplace, amongst many others, situations that really don’t need a design genius to be resolved, they jus need to be seen.
Good design is human, think about humans and how they really relate with the designed, little by little the companies in Mexico will learn to appreciate it.
If you want to be paid for doing design, first, I think, focus on being a good human being.
Posted on Tuesday, August 4th, 2009 at %I:%M %p. Filed under: Blog, Essays and articles Tags: designers, disabled, discapacitados, diseñadores, mexico RSS 2.0 feed.
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