Tomorrow Club #4: Inclusive Design

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Looking at the way many products and solutions have been designed so far, it’s safe to say that things need to change. AI based facial recognition that only recognises white people, car safety tests that don’t account for women’s measurements, voice recognition made for men. And on top of that, we’re using up the world’s resources without giving anything back. We need to redesign today’s systems and structures in order to create a desirable and democratised future.

For Tomorrow Club #4, we decided to dive deep and invited three experts working with these questions on a daily basis but in different areas of expertise. Klara Adolphson, Senior Advisor Leadership, Facilitation, Culture & Change, Charlotte Manning, Global Community Manager at HON, and Lars Lindwall, Design Lead HUI at Nevs. What they all have in common? All three of them are working towards redesigning old structures.

Together with the panel and the participants, we tried to find answers to why we keep doing things in the same old way although we know we could do better; what the driving forces for doing good are, and the important role of ‘Play’ in all of this. We put it all into a report aiming to answer how we can break patterns and what systems need to be changed now.

In the report, you’ll find out why we all should be making choices that benefit the environment as well as others around us, who has the power to redesign structures, and how we can change ingrained narratives — once and for all.