Green Thinking Review
Edition 85
Design for Everyone
Can We Really Design for Everyone?
A practical examination of inclusive and universal design—asking how buildings can accommodate more human difference with dignity, adaptability and care across time.
Edition cover · web-ready PDF availableWhy this edition matters
A question with consequences.
Every design begins with assumptions about people, yet the average user does not really exist. Age, mobility, perception, culture, income and family circumstances vary—and change over time. Designing for more people means reducing avoidable exclusion while ensuring that access, affordability, maintainability, participation and belonging survive beyond handover.
Inside GTR 85
A complete conversation, in one focused edition.
Seven dimensions of designing for more people
Five questions before we call a place inclusive
Conradie Park: designed for diverse lives
2040: buildings that change with us
Cover story
Beyond the Average User
Look beyond the imagined average user.
Ideas become useful when they meet a real place, a real challenge and the people shaping what comes next.
GTR reflection · Shareable thought
“Inclusion is not one design feature. It is the quality of the relationship between people and place—and that relationship must remain meaningful across time.”— Green Thinking Review, Edition 85
How to cite
Reference this edition.
Green Thinking Review. “Design for Everyone: Can We Really Design for Everyone?.” GTR 85, 25 September 2026. https://www.greenthinking.sheltagroup.com/issues/design-for-everyone
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