Participatory Design has developed  methods  that empower people with impairments to actively take part in the design process. Many  designed artifacts  for this target group likewise aim to empower their users in daily life. In this workshop, we share and relate best practices of both empowering  methods  and empowering  designs . Participants are therefore invited to bring along cases of designing for- and with people with sensory-, cognitive- or social impairments. Our workshop consists of three parts: (1) Foregrounding empowering elements in PD  methods  using method stories, containing the backstory of a method put into practice; (2) Reflecting on  technological artifacts , exploring the empowering qualities of person-artifact-context interaction; (3) constructing a critical synopsis of the various relationships between empowering products and - methods.
['Jelle van Dijk', 'Niels Hendriks', 'Christopher Frauenberger', 'Fenne Verhoeven', 'Karin Slegers', 'Eva Brandt', 'Rita Maldonado Branco']
Empowering people with impairments: how participatory methods can inform the design of empowering artifacts