Inclusivity is about viewing, and accepting, human diversity. Although we might indentify with certain lables that describe our characteristics, what makes us our uniqie individual self is that we lie on a point of a continuous spectrum of all the characteristics that make us who we are.

Do you draw in- or outside the box?

What society tends to do is reduce this to discrete boxes. We are a man, woman, introvert, extravert etc. This tendency is ingrained into our psyche because it helps us understand the world around us without having to invest too much time and energy in investigating the grey areas. But aren’t these grey areas so much different? And is not wanting to be in a box also a sort of box? With the world becoming even more fastpaced each year, our bias towards relying on the boxes may become more second-nature even still. Although understandable, this is undesirable when it leads to discrimination, stigmatisation and shunning of those that color slightly outside of the lines. We might attempt to border this off by acknowledging the limits of a box. Straight or gay for example becomes LGBTQ. But essentially this is just adding smaller boxes to the existing larger ones we already have.

These where questions and topics Joëlle researched for her nomination for the Epson Design Awards.