Pertinence of social inclusion design methods in communities

Abstract

A specific approach to social inclusion method for the design process in a community, even if tested, does not assure the effectiveness within time and different future projects. This paper is based on a case study of three different design processes taken place on the rural community of San Jose de Olaes - Ecuador, dealing with the importance of participation. After having a successful process with the participatory design of one specific need, we were not able to apply this participatory design process in other projects to come, because of different circumstances based on time, product and especially common interest. We will illustrate this process and how there is no recipes in the inclusive design process not even within the same community and almost the same period of time.