The Workshop

Designing for accessibility ensures that products, services and environments are usable for all. The winery cellar door experience includes products, services and a built environment which have been designed specifically for human interaction – but is it available for all who wish to participate in the in-person experience of wine education, tasting and purchase? 

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The cellar door presents a unique case to study in-situ how accessible and inclusive this visitor destination is. This is a workshop about "uncorking" the potential to design a winery visit that can be experienced by all who wish to participate.

 

We will conduct a workshop that is creative, engaging, and informal. Using the HCI body storming technique we will observe and experience how guests engage with the products, services and environments of several Adelaide Hills cellar doors, in-situ, and reflect on their accessibility. Through walkshopping, a walking workshop, we will share our interactions, ideate and propose digital interventions for enhancing accessibility.

 

The gathered insights and design solutions for eliminating accessibility barriers experienced at the cellar doors have the potential to influence future research into inclusive tourism more generally when published. This forms the fifth in a unique OZCHI series of workshops exploring interaction design and experience design for the Australian wine industry.