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Let's Open Cities for Us - LOCUS
Herein is provided an overview of 40 projects created by European students of Architecture and Urban Design, completed between 2008 and 2010 and resulting from a set of 4 workshops which worked on the issue of inclusive urban design within different patrimonial urban centres that were characterized by steep and complex topography. This work was the result of an Erasmus Agreement in partnership with 8 European Universities and promoted by the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC-BarcelonaTech), through the Càtedrad'Accessibilitat (CATAC) and the EscolaTècnica Superior d'Arquitectura del Vallès (ETSAV). Marta Bordas Eddy is an architect and PhD candidate by the Universitat Politècnica de Cataluna (UPC-BarcelonaTech) and the Tampere University of Technology (TUT). Her area of expertize is inclusive architectural design, and accessible urban planning. She has been a researcher at UPC-BarcelonaTech (2007-2011), adjunct professor at the University of Barcelona – UB (2012), and a researcher and teaching assistant at TUT currently.
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Design for Inclusivity
The book provides new perspectives from leading experts examining the role of architects and urbanists in designing for inclusivity in our built environment. By focusing on themes of gender, race and ethnicity, ability, neurodiversity, age, poverty and socio-economy and the non-human, the book tackles the complex challenges that designers and scholars encounter and need to address in their works. The volume offers a diverse compilation of peer-reviewed papers related to architecture for inclusivity in various different formats, ranging from visual essays, argumentative papers and scholastic texts. It presents the notion of "availability", a concept which works to challenge the "othering" inh...
Universal Accessibility
"Universal Accessibility: On the need of an empathy-based architecture is a PhD thesis researching the paradigm of accessible architectural design. Starting from the very first understanding of accessibility in architecture, it analyses the evolution of the concept over recent decades up to the present, in order to evaluate its current significance. The assumption of this dissertation is that all current theories concerning accessibility in architecture are not properly approached and/or they are poorly linked to architectural practice, since the main postulate of this thesis is that the quality of built environments is poor in respect to accessibility. Therefore, this thesis aims to point out the main problems that accessible designs face nowadays and, more importantly, to rationalize why this situation must be reversed while also exploring the tools for doing this" -- Abstract.
Privacy at the Margins
Privacy can function as an expressive, anti-subordination tool of resistance that is worthy of constitutional protection.
Breaking Down Barriers
The Cambridge Workshops on Universal Access and Assistive Technology (CWUAAT) is one of the few gatherings where people interested in inclusive design, across different fields, including designers, computer scientists, engineers, architects, ergonomists, ethnographers, policymakers and user communities, meet, discuss, and collaborate. CWUAAT has also become an international workshop, representing diverse cultures including Portugal, Germany, Trinidad and Tobago, Canada, Australia, China, Norway, USA, Belgium, UK, and many more. The workshop has five main themes based on barriers identified in the developing field of design for inclusion: I Breaking Down Barriers between Disciplines II Breaki...
Architecture’s Disability Problem
Architecture’s Disability Problem explores the intersection of architecture and disability in the United States from the perspective of professional practice. This book uncovers why, despite the profound effect of the Americans with Disabilities Act on the architectural profession, there has been so little interest in design for disability in mainstream architecture. To counter this, the book investigates alternative approaches to designing with disability, through three case studies. These showcase both buildings and how design processes driven by disabled people shape design and professional roles. Combining historical research, formal and discourse analysis, and interviews with people w...
Design for Health
The book provides new perspectives from leading researchers accentuating and examining the central role of the built environment in conceiving and implementing multifaceted solutions to the complex challenges of physical and mental health, revealing critical potentials for architecture and design to contribute in more informed and long-term ways to the urgent transition of our society. The volume book offers a compilation of peer-reviewed papers that uniquely connects knowledge and criticality broadly across practice and academia; from new technologies, theories, and methods to community -engaged practice on many scales, and more. The book is part of a series of six volumes that explore the ...
La percepción espacial y el TEA
Que quepamos por el hueco de una puerta, podamos circular por un pasillo o subir unas escaleras es, en fin, lo normal. Pero no lo es para todo el mundo. Hay personas a las que un pasillo se les hace muy estrecho o que la iluminación de una estancia les genera un ambiente hostil. La percepción espacial y el TEA es un ensayo divulgativo que investiga cómo la arquitectura puede mejorar la vida de las personas con Trastornos del Espectro Autista.
