Open resources
Diagrams, photos, and one-pagers, free to use.
I do a lot of presentations, inside and outside academia, and I am often asked whether people can use the photos and illustrations I make. The answer is always yes. Here I gather the material I use most. Take it into your teaching, a talk, or a video. I would love to hear how you use it.
Diagrams and illustrations
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The Bell Curve
Have we built our society on too narrow a base? The figure I reach for most.
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Collingridge's dilemma
Knowledge and control move in opposite directions over the life of a design.
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Accessibility, Usability, Universal Design
Three related concepts, each with its own focus, and what they add up to.
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What do categorisations create?
A teaching slide on the work that pictograms do. Kvinna / Man.
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The Problem with Inclusion
Inclusion is done to someone by someone. The case for nonclusion.
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The exemplary curve
Regulation sets a floor. The exemplary climbs above it, largely unregulated.
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Mobbing by design
Small, repeated exclusions accumulate into a sustained experience of being unworthy.
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Photo collections
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Red carpets
The same warm gesture, photographed at entrance after entrance. What differs is the ground under it.
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Wheelchair signs from around the world
The sign is the categorisation made visible. I photograph them wherever I travel: look at what each one depicts, a person or a function.
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Nonclusive solutions
Design that meets variation without sorting people. Park benches, toilet signs, lifts, and counters that simply work for whoever arrives.
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Public seating
What a seat says about who is expected. From tables that keep a place open, to benches that close the circle, to seating built to be left.
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Workshops & experiments
Field exercises from my research and teaching, made to be run by others: with a class, a design team, or on your own. Each links to its full instructions, with printable run sheets to bring along.
Video course
Att planera och bygga nonkluderande: a free lecture series on planning and building nonclusively, produced in the Syntax of Equality project. The series is held in Swedish. About the series · Watch on YouTube →
Photos
Nearly every photo on this site is one I took myself. The few sent to me by colleagues or citizen-science contributors are credited where they appear. Please use them as freely as the illustrations, under the same CC BY 4.0 license. Here is a sample of my field photographs of the built environment. Many more are scattered through the posts.
