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Announcement RChD: Creación y Pensamiento |Vol. 10 Nº 18| JUN 2025 | Dossier: The multiscalar. Deadline for full manuscript submission: December 31, 2024. 

Addressing Diversity in Universal Design Literacy: a Sociocultural and Neuroscientific Perspective

Authors

  • María del Pilar Correa Departamento de Diseño, Facultad de Humanidades y Tecnologías de la Comunicación Social, y Centro de Cartografía Táctil, Programa de Investigación, Desarrollo e Innovación PIDI, Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana, Santiago, Chile. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4074-5472
  • María de los Ángeles Juricic Departamento de Oftalmología, y Laboratorio de Neurosistemas, Departamento de Neurociencia, Instituto de Neurociencia Biomédica, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
Vol. 5 No. 8 (2020): June
https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-837X.2020.57650

Abstract

Design is too important to be left to designers. This phrase, attributed by Adam Richardson (2010, 184) to Raymond Loewy, presents a concept that should guide the designer’s practice: the function of Design is so relevant that the exclusive domain of its knowledge must abandon the designer's mind to permeate all areas of society that may benefit from its use. Design must be for everyone. In this article, we develop a dual sociocultural and neuroscientific perspective of how literacy in Universal Design and the democratization of Design are crucial to address diversity and reduce inequalities gaps in Chilean society. While our respective experiences working with people with Low Vision and Blindness brought us together in this purpose, our ambition is that our discussion and its possible applications will not be limited to this group of people, but an example and reflection of how to approach diversity from Design perspective.

Keywords:

Diversity, literacy, multisensory perception

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Correa, M. del P., & Juricic, M. de los Ángeles. (2020). Addressing Diversity in Universal Design Literacy: a Sociocultural and Neuroscientific Perspective. RChD: Creación Y Pensamiento, 5(8), 23–36. https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-837X.2020.57650
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