The provision of assistive technology is an important individual and collective service of the welfare state. The state plays a significant role towards linking users and products and the matching of devices and users is both a science and an art. However, many people feel it is stigmatising to use individually designed assistive technologies as they often, in a subtle way, convey discriminating barriers in society. A major challenge of assistive technology is thus to reduce social exclusion, marginalization and importantly, to reduce individual risks and societal costs related to non-use,...
The provision of assistive technology is an important individual and collective service of the welfare state. The state plays a significant role to...
Cities are built over the remnants of their past buried beneath their present. We build on what has been built before, whether over foundations formalising previous permanency or over the temporal occupations of ground. But what happens when you shift a city - when you dislodge its occupation of ground towards a new ground, bury it and forget it?
Focusing on Berlin's destruction during World War II and its reconstruction after the end of the war, this book offers a rethinking of how the practices of destruction and burial combine to reform the city through geography and how burying a city...
Cities are built over the remnants of their past buried beneath their present. We build on what has been built before, whether over foundations formal...
