Conversation 7.1. Embodied Access and Nonverbal Participation: Scaffolding Inclusion

Discussion of Full Papers 1219 and 1245 from Full Paper Session 7 and Exploratory Papers (listed below). In this 19th edition of the PDC, Full and Exploratory papers will be organized into Conversations, that is, experimental formats of presentation and discussion of the papers based on triggering questions and authors’ interactions. 

Full Papers:

• 1219: Infrastructuring Participatory Scaffolds with People with Profound Intellectual Disabilities in Community Gallery.
  Authors: Chen, Sifan; Fu, Qianrong; Barbareschi, Giulia; Chen, Dunya; Sato, Chihiro.
  
• 1245: Hearing Materials, Feeling Participation, Caring for Personhood: Situated Lessons from Participatory Design with Nonverbal Participants.
  Authors: De Coen, Amber; Vetter, Ralf; Nieuwenhuis, Sanne.
  

Exploratory Papers:

• 1386: Waiting to Learn, Learning to Wait.
  Authors: Carvalho, Ana; Storni, Cristiano.
• 1430: Design Probes in Practice: Evolving Participatory Methods with Wheelchair Users.
  Authors: Wilding, Esther; Paay, Jeni; Taffe, Simone; Abos, Regine; Winter, Melanie; McDonald, Rachael.
• 1463: Exploring Participatory Methods for Design Research on Disability Inclusion in Public Toilets.
  Authors: Purkayastha, Divyang; Raheja, Gaurav.

The discussion will be guided by the following questions prepared by the Chairs: 

• Q1: When participation unfolds in constrained or marginalized contexts, how do we redefine what counts as participation, and how do materials, bodies, spaces, and conflicts become part of enabling inclusion?​
• Q2: When participation is not primarily verbal or deliberative, how do we design and recognize forms of inclusion that emerge through bodies, materials, rhythms, and waiting, and what does this require from us as designers?