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Doing Disability Differently: An alternative handbook on architecture, dis/ability and designing for everyday life
This ground-breaking book aims to take a new and innovative view on how disability and architecture might be connected. Rather than putting disability at the end of the design process, centred mainly on compliance, it sees disability – and ability – as creative starting points for the whole design process. It asks the intriguing can working from dis/ability actually generate an alternative kind of architectural avant-garde?
To do this, Doing Disability Differently:
explores how thinking about dis/ability opens up to critical and creative investigation our everyday social attitudes and practices about people, objects and space argues that design can help resist and transform underlying and unnoticed inequalities introduces architects to the emerging and important field of disability studies and considers what different kinds of design thinking and doing this can enable asks how designing for everyday life – in all its diversity – can be better embedded within contemporary architecture as a discipline offers examples of what doing disability differently can mean for architectural theory, education and professional practice aims to embed into architectural practice, attitudes and approaches that creatively and constructively refuse to perpetuate body 'norms' or the resulting inequalities in access to, and support from, built space. Ultimately, this book suggests that re-addressing architecture and disability involves nothing less than re-thinking how to design for the everyday occupation of space more generally.
To do this, Doing Disability Differently:
explores how thinking about dis/ability opens up to critical and creative investigation our everyday social attitudes and practices about people, objects and space argues that design can help resist and transform underlying and unnoticed inequalities introduces architects to the emerging and important field of disability studies and considers what different kinds of design thinking and doing this can enable asks how designing for everyday life – in all its diversity – can be better embedded within contemporary architecture as a discipline offers examples of what doing disability differently can mean for architectural theory, education and professional practice aims to embed into architectural practice, attitudes and approaches that creatively and constructively refuse to perpetuate body 'norms' or the resulting inequalities in access to, and support from, built space. Ultimately, this book suggests that re-addressing architecture and disability involves nothing less than re-thinking how to design for the everyday occupation of space more generally.
- GenresDisability
220 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2014
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January 1, 2020
My first book in 2020 for personal studies enrichment. I have a particular interest in disability studies as complementary to my civic advocacy degree and minor in women and gender studies. That’s where I come in for this book, as a means to supplement my education where my university doesn’t offer such.
I am disabled myself, and I found many passages that were beautifully resonating for me. This book did offer new insights for me as of course, disabilities vary on a large spectrum.
The first half of the book was more for me as the second half was full of more architectural jargon, which is expected for the book this is. I found this book by happenstance, walking through my library and was intrigued. This is especially so when I’m researching how to support small businesses locally to offer a better experience for disabled patrons after a not so great experience locally. This was a good start.
I recommend this to architects, students, those with disabilities and those studying disabilities. I think it should be required reading for those in any architectural or design studies. This offers a means that is well written for those who may benefit early from a new perspective.
I highly recommend and this set 2020 studying on a high note. It will be difficult to compete with this book.
I am disabled myself, and I found many passages that were beautifully resonating for me. This book did offer new insights for me as of course, disabilities vary on a large spectrum.
The first half of the book was more for me as the second half was full of more architectural jargon, which is expected for the book this is. I found this book by happenstance, walking through my library and was intrigued. This is especially so when I’m researching how to support small businesses locally to offer a better experience for disabled patrons after a not so great experience locally. This was a good start.
I recommend this to architects, students, those with disabilities and those studying disabilities. I think it should be required reading for those in any architectural or design studies. This offers a means that is well written for those who may benefit early from a new perspective.
I highly recommend and this set 2020 studying on a high note. It will be difficult to compete with this book.
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