PowerMeUp

In 1997 NCSU Center for Universal Design copyrighted 7 brilliant Principles of Universal Design. They focused on how a person physically functions in their environment and propose design objectives to enable people with physical limitations to function as well as those without. This article imagines an 8th principle. It examines how one is perceived in an environment and how we might intentionally design so that an environment doesn’t lead us to making unfair prejudgments of others. This article was first published in Design for All Institute of India’s April 2009 newsletter.

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