Dynamic Worktop for Highly Inclusive Kitchens: Design for All (DfA) Solution for Product Innovation in the Kitchen Furniture’s Area

The culture of design evolves towards Design for All (DfA). It is design for human diversity, social inclusion and equality, which aims to extend the active and autono- mous, comfortable and pleasant use of products to the widest plurality of subjects, different from each other for culture or perceptive, motor and cognitive skills. In the area of Product design, the solutions and innovations on the market are mostly partial, specialized and hyper-functional, and do not consider, as far as possible, everyone’s needs through an inclusive approach to the project. In view of the transition to social inclusion, the paper proposes a discussion on the application of DfA tools and meth- ods in the field of Kitchen design and, in particular, for the development of a dynamic worktop for a highly inclusive kitchen.