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 …

Purpose: Studies suggest that the concept of universal design (UD) is not widely accepted
and that some of its ideas are received rather sceptically. This article confronts the concept …

Current studies in design education suggest that students and educators base their designs
on what they already know about themselves and their peers, or on stereotypical notions of …

This paper provides a critical examination of the taken for granted nature of the
codes/guidelines used towards the creation of designed spaces, their social relations with …

Wie wir Dinge gestalten, hat einen maßgeblichen Einfluss darauf, was oder wen wir als"
normal" oder" normabweichend" empfinden. Design markiert somit die Grenzbereiche …

With shifting demographics and emerging populations that do not fit the universal ideal,
designers more than ever need to be receptive and responsive to heterogeneity and …

This paper reflects on multisensorial and multimodal processes by considering spatial
design differently through three case studies in Canada and Belgium that involved persons …

This paper examines the concept of “Surveillance Technology [ST]” as it is used in ageing
and dementia research but which suffers from poor definition. We attempt to clarify this …

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A crucial ability for architects and other designers is to empathise with the people they
design for. In architectural education, however, these people are hardly present. Therefore …