Inclusive Design: A Key to Climate Resilience?

Location awareness is crucial to safety and relocation decisions. The built environment gives you information about the space so you can interpret, organize, and evaluate it.

Fremont, CA: Inclusive design is crucial for addressing climate change threats by promoting resilience and accessibility in spaces and places. This approach addresses needs related to gender identity, socioeconomic status, race, ability, age, neurodiversity, and culture. Designers are reimagining the future of spaces to promote resilience and also make preparedness more accessible in the face of natural disasters and other climate change events.

Inclusive Design Strategies

Inclusive design strategies can boost resilience and help you prepare for climate change:

1• Design For Access

The Body Fit design strategy makes it so everyone can access, exit, and use spaces independently, no matter their size or ability. During disasters, it allows quick and independent access so that you can move to the best place. Power-free travel is made easy with entrances, exits, and vertical transitions, making it easy to transport supplies and emergency services.

2• Design For Passive Survival

Designing spaces ensures comfort and wellness during stress and shock by controlling light, air temperature, and sound with form instead of powered systems.