Consulting on Accessibility, universal design and active design
What is necessary for 10% of the population is useful for 40%, and comfortable for everyone!
Designing for everyone , with a view to universality and well-being , is not a utopia. Far from complicating projects, it allows for gains to be made well beyond the most disadvantaged groups.
In an increasingly sedentary world, thinking about every development to encourage all users to be active is a major public health issue .
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The team
Permanent members
Pierre-Antoine Leyrat
An engineer by training, always interested in taking into account human factors in design processes, and reciprocally in the influence of our environment and technology on our lives, I was able to operationally explore these subjects during my professional experiences . In charge of the accessibility of Olympic and Paralympic works as part of the Paris 2024 Games, I had the opportunity to develop and lead a strategy involving a vast ecosystem, which contributed both to the success of the event and to leaving a strong legacy to the territories, while developing innovative solutions promoting inclusion and active mobility.
Previously a project manager at the Centre for Resources and Innovation for Disability Mobility (CEREMH), recognized as a national center of expertise by the CNSA, I led innovation and evaluation projects and supported numerous solution providers so that they best met needs, always within a rich ecosystem and constant link with users. Integrated into the working groups that led to the drafting of the accessibility label reference framework issued by Certivéa and the AFNOR SPEC P96-000 standard - "Neighborhoods committed to accessibility for all - Management system and commitment framework associated with the approach" , involved in the drafting of the active design guide published by ANCT and Paris 2024, I have also been involved since 2014 in the VHMA master's program at the University of Paris-Saclay on issues of accessibility, universal design and active design.
Partners
PRAXIE DESIGN
INSKIP
Supporting companies and startups in the strategy, financing and implementation of their innovative projects
KARST
Key concepts
Universal design
“A strategy that aims to design and compose different products and environments that are, as far as possible and in the most independent and natural way possible, accessible, understandable and usable by all, without having to resort to solutions requiring adaptation or special design.”
Council of Europe, ResAP Resolution (2001)1 on the introduction of universal design principles into the training curricula of all professions working in the field of the built environment
Our vision of universal design : it is a central concept for thinking about everything that is designed for use (products, services, facilities, etc.), and which must be the starting point for projects. Its deployment requires an organization in which the needs of all users play a central role. It both guarantees the adequacy of the final result to user expectations and is a source of creativity, while being part of a principle of reality in synergy with environmental and social aspects.
Active design
“Active design involves arranging public spaces and buildings to encourage physical or sporting activity, freely and spontaneously, for everyone.
The desire to develop active design results from a double observation :
― Sedentary lifestyles [...] continue to increase in France. One in two adults and one in five children are overweight.
― Many city centers have experienced difficulties in terms of vitality and attractiveness and are looking for new ways to attract residents and visitors.
Active design, a concept still little known in France but used in Northern Europe, North America and Asia, can be used to address this dual challenge.
These are developments that bring physical and sporting activity closer to those who are furthest from it. They also allow individuals to reclaim public space ; they promote accessibility and mixed use and highlight existing heritage.
Active Design Guide, December 2021
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