This guide, designed by TechLab, explores the ethical issues that arise in co-design processes involving people with disabilities.
Inclusive innovation means innovation with and for those who are ‘forgotten’ by innovation. This includes people with disabilities, the elderly, people in precarious situations, children, women and people from different cultures. These groups are sometimes excluded because they cannot access or use innovation, or because they are not represented on design teams. Inclusive innovation seeks to resolve these injustices by involving all publics in the design of innovative products and services.
Since 2018, APF France handicap’s TechLab has been working to involve people with disabilities in companies’ product and service design processes. This co-design makes it possible to develop products and services that are useful to everyone, based on real needs. Involving people who are excluded from innovation means working towards a more inclusive society.
In partnership with the École Polytechnique, TechLab is also conducting research into what underpins a truly inclusive approach to innovation. This approach raises a number of challenges, not least ethical ones: it must respect, protect and guarantee people’s dignity and power to act. When it comes to ethics, there is not always a simple answer, but reflection and questioning will lay the foundations for the approach. That’s why this guide is primarily about asking questions.
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