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Last updated: 24 September 2026

The Kuggen building at Lindholmen in Gothenburg, a rounded facade of faceted panels in reds, pinks and green, photographed from below against a blue sky where a large white cloud fills the left half of the frame.
Lindholmen, Gothenburg. Partly concrete and ready-made, partly unfinished and up in the sky. My work right now looks about the same.

Latest · Newsletter #21 · 1 October 2026

When the Accessible Route Is the Main Route

Speaking next

  1. 4–6 November 2026 Galway, Ireland

    UD26 in Galway: five appearances in three days

    The 8th International Universal Design Conference

    • Wednesday 4 November. My talk Accessibility, Usability and Universal Design Beyond “Us and Them” is part of the opening plenary, 09:00–10:30. At 11:00 I present our paper Benchmarking Accessibility, Usability, and Universal Design – What Kind of Society Are We Building?, written with Lilian MĂŒller, Larry McNutt and Gerald Craddock, in the session on implementing Universal Design legislation and policy.
    • Thursday 5 November. The workshop What Makes Universal Design Visible: A Workshop on Direct and Proxy Indicators, with Lilian MĂŒller, 14:30–15:30 in the Veranda Lounge. The AUUD Matrix is the material, on paper, in a tactile version and as an online form.
    • Friday 6 November. Two papers at 12:00–13:00: The User Paradigm with Bianca Prins, in the session on identity, voice and user participation, and A study on universal design evaluation methods in an AI-powered environment, our Japan–Sweden comparison of users’ scanning behaviours, with Tomoko Obama and Kristina Brink, in the session on digital inclusion in the age of artificial intelligence.

    The companion page gathers the reading behind the plenary talk, and the conference programme has every session. Slides and recordings follow after the conference.

Writing

Papers for UD26. Three papers and a workshop are accepted for the 8th International Universal Design Conference in Galway in November: Benchmarking Accessibility, Usability, and Universal Design – What Kind of Society Are We Building? (with Lilian MĂŒller, Larry McNutt and Gerald Craddock), The User Paradigm (with Bianca Prins), A study on universal design evaluation methods in an AI-powered environment (with Tomoko Obama and Kristina Brink), and the workshop What Makes Universal Design Visible (with Lilian MĂŒller, Larry McNutt and Gerald Craddock). The matrix the paper and the workshop build on is an open resource. Camera-ready versions were submitted in September.

This website. Launched in September 2026 as the home for the work: the design guidelines, the key ideas, the open photo collections, the workshops and experiments, and every edition of the newsletter. Everything here is free to use, no need to ask. It is ongoing work, and I keep adding to it.

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Projects

Three active projects, all testing the ideas in practice, outside the university.

  1. 2026 – 2028 Formas

    Provtryck Konsekvenserna!

    Pressurise the Consequences!

    What if accessibility consequences were tested before policies were implemented, the way a print is proofed before the press run?

  2. 2026 – 2028 Familjen Kamprads stiftelse

    Design med delaktighet

    Design with Participation

    How does design change when participation is the starting condition, not a method bolted onto a finished brief?

  3. 2026 – 2029 Formas

    Visualisering för Trygghet och TillgÀnglighet

    Visualisation for Safety and Accessibility

    Can a place be made safe without sorting people into the protected and the threatening?

Teaching & supervision

Current doctoral students.

  • As main supervisor: Anna-Sara Fagerholm · Eva Flodin · LinnĂ©a Eklöf · Mia Larsdotter · Semra Sahin-Haglund
  • As co-supervisor: Jaxon Pope · Linda Maria Thompson · Riccardo Centazzo · Sheida Amiri Rigi

This autumn I teach two courses at Mid Sweden University: Graphic Design Ethics in October, and Universal Design in December.

Past

A few finished projects and past talks worth keeping in view.

Projects

Talks

  1. 2026 UmeÄ, Sweden

    Opening keynote with Stina Ericsson, Svenskans beskrivning 41: Sluta inkludera! Alla tillhör redan

  2. 2026 Kolding, Denmark

    Inauguration lecture as Bevica Guest Professor, Kolding School of Design

  3. 2025 Denmark

    Keynote, DTU SkyLab

  4. 2023 and 2024 Denmark

    Keynote, the Bevica Foundation

  5. 2021 Korea

    Keynote, International Universal Design Seminar

  6. 2014 Lund, Sweden

    Chair, Universal Design 2014

    I chaired the conference when it came to Lund and co-edited the proceedings.

All keynotes and talks →

If something here overlaps with what you are working on, get in touch: hello@peohedvall.com, or join the conversation in the newsletter comments.

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