universal design is and will remain the challenge of the future for product design, architecture and service design.

For many years, we have understood universal design as a process that is, due to the global demographic dimension, impossible to define! Our work and involvement span all fields of competence.


Our guiding principles:

• universal design places the main focus on people.

• universal design is not only a design topic.
• universal design is an interdisciplinary task.
• universal design is open to all users.
• universal design creates service systems.
• universal design is a process, not a standard.
• universal design promotes social inclusion.
• universal design deals with questions concerning the future.
• universal design is an attitude and a responsibility.
• universal design must be firmly anchored in the education system, early and continually.
• universal design undertakes to enlighten the worlds of politics and industry.
• universal design secures and promotes economic growth.

(Excerpt from the Weimar Declaration from the 1st national universal design conference of experts, an initiative of universal design e.V. Germany)