| Francesc Aragall i Clavé |
|
|
|
||||||||||||||||
|
Welcome Like any other person, my development which has led me to adulthood has consisted in overcoming obstacles through cognitive learning, automation and movement coordination, physical growth, sensory maturity and experience. The grade of autonomy achieved allows me to enjoy my surroundings and participate in the various activities on offer. Being so, why does my professional activity have Design for All as its principal axis? On the one hand, during my adolescent years the political reality of my country awoke within me a social consciousness of combating inequality and injustice and, on the other hand, I have always felt attracted to the human being and the result of its creative activity. The fusion of theses two factors promoted a growing interest in human development, from a physical point of view as well as an intellectual and social one, those of which have led to research in different fields, like for example artistic expression, sports physiology, pedagogy or ergonomics, awakening thus, my interest for people who have problems interacting with the built and social environment. Going deeper into this theme, I was conscious that the problem is not that people differ from the standards, but the environments (physical, social and cultural barriers) do not take into consideration human diversity; realising that, frequently, things are not executed well enough due to lack of information or real knowledge of the problems that others have interacting with the environment. This discovery has been the base from which I have developed, throughout the years, the concept of Design for All, a theoretical structure that allows the development of useful tools and strategies for everyone so that we have the possibility of influencing the characteristics of the environment that surround us so that we can work to achieve a more comfortable world for those who inhabit or will inhabit it, and in doing so cooperating to diminish social inequality.
Francesc Aragall i Clavé |
©
Francesc Aragall i Clavé, 2004
|