Diseño Inclusivo y Emocional. Elective for fourth- and fifth-year students, Faculty of Architecture, Universidad Católica de Salta (UCASAL). Online, in real time. Taught since 2025, with Rubén Jacob Dazarola.
Description
The course introduces inclusive design as a way of working. Students learn to design with the people who are most often left out, and to pay attention to how a place feels as well as how it functions. The course draws on my work at the Inclusive Design Research Centre (IDRC) at OCAD University.
Three ideas that guide the course
- Design for human uniqueness and variability, not for an average person.
- Keep improving your processes and tools, and ask who is still missing.
- Remember that every design decision sits inside a larger system, and consider the people it touches.
These are the three dimensions of inclusive design set out by Jutta Treviranus, which also guide the IDRC.
Writing about the course
Pereyra, David. “Diseño inclusivo – Desaprender para diseñar: Voces estudiantiles en la enseñanza de la arquitectura.” Teks del Sud 7(1): 89–100, 2026. Read the article (in Spanish).
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