Doing Disability Differently: An Alternative Handbook on Architecture, Dis/Ability and Designing for Everyday Life

ISBN-13: 9780415824958 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 220 str.

Jos Boys

Opis

This text 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 question: can working from dis/ability actually generate an alternative kind of architectural avant-garde?

Recenzje

"Offering examples of how disability can be reconceptualised in architectural theory, education and professional practice, this handbook on designing for disability is an important contribution to our understanding of a marginalized group." – Specifier Magazine

Spis treści

Acknowledgements  Introduction: Why do Disability Differently?  Part 1: Starting from Disability  1. Challenging Commonsense  2. Beyond Accessibility  3. Unraveling Dis/ordinary Occupancy  Part 2: Re-connecting Architecture with Dis/ability  4. Destablizing Architecture?  5. On Feeling and Beauty  6. Bodies, Buildings, Devices and Augmentation  Part 3: Doing Architecture and Dis/ability Differently  7. Alternative Mappings  8. Strategies and Tactics  9. Re-thinking the Normal  Bibliography  Glossary  Index.