‘CARE’ - Our Four-Step Inclusive Design Programme

Work with us to establish or build on your inclusive design practice. Step up and align with creative industry expectations of providing equitable and inclusive, spaces, services and products. Design that embeds a diverse range of needs and abilities requires innovation and creativity and can lead to more practical solutions and a competitive edge in your industry and education space.

Why work with us?

Because we care and want to build design systems that foster belonging and connection and that are created for love and liberation to thrive. Our practice also requires designers to challenge their own biases, and assumptions about what is ‘normal’ and by doing so can become oppression conscious. We believe inclusive design is the future of design and is the responsibility of everyone in the design ecosystem, from leaders to product managers to fashion designers to digital marketers.

Our four-step inclusive design programme called ‘CARE’ will empower you and your business, organisation or education space to work with and see your unseen audience to make inclusive design the future for people and the planet to thrive.

Step One - Building robust foundations for inclusive design to thrive

This is a two part session and is rooted in our CARE pillars

• Create the foundations for an inclusive design ecosystem and competitive edge

• Address and become conscious of stigma, ableism and internal ableism

• Realise the ‘ why’ inclusive design matters in your business or organisation

• Empower designers and teams to centre, value and work ‘with,’ and not for, or on behalf of your unseen neurodivergent and Disabled audience through our inclusive design life cycle

“Perspective is built from the parts of a person's whole experience.”

- Deborah Campbell, Founder Born Equal Consults

Step Two - Inclusive design as best practice

This is a two part session and is rooted in our CARE pillars and inclusive design questioning methodology

• Create a space and place to foster trust and to understand new standards of integrity, dependability and social responsibility.

• Address the purpose of inclusive design in your organisation using our Inclusive design questioning method

• Realise the power of embedding ethical and social models of inclusive design into your business and education space

• Recognise the sustainable equitable growth opportunities that come from designing inclusively, using industry case studies

• Empower teams to create inclusive design lifecycles that offer competitive and financial benefits for sustainable ethical growth.

Step Three - Care and Innovate

Do you have a design challenge you want to resolve? Using our CARE pillars we empower your organisation to ignite innovative thinking, questioning and creativity in your team by using our inclusive design questioning method.

Step four - Research Roundtables

Meet and work with an unseen audience of Neurodiverse and Disability creatives from an intersectional background to evaluate your inclusive design practice, products and services. Discover new directions for evolving and growing your business through an interactive roundtable discussion. All attendees of the roundtable discussions are paid equitably. Our roundtable research groups can help you innovate and iterate your design practice.

Some of our work is delivered with our Interdependent partners

Why work interdependently?

We do not exist in silos. Our work and lived experience come to life by connecting with other voices in our network to foster intersectional co-creative practice, representation, identity and perspectives. We work with several different businesses and people who share our values as equity partners in delivering our collective work. 

“There is no longer an ‘I think’ but a ‘we think’.  It is the ‘we think’ which establishes the ‘I’ think and not the contrary.”

- Paulo Freire, Author, Educator and Philosopher