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Doing Disability Differently
An alternative handbook on architecture, dis/ability and designing for everyday life
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eBook - ePub
Doing Disability Differently
An alternative handbook on architecture, dis/ability and designing for everyday life
About this book
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 question: 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.
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Index
Note: Page numbers in bold refer to the Glossary/terminology. Numbers followed by ’n’ refer to footnotes.
abled attitudes 12–15
ableism 3n, 193
accessibility 193; spatial dimensions 37–40
accessible design: impact of London Olympics 145–6, 146f, 147f, Plate 14
Accessible Icon Project 48–9
Acedo, Guadalupe 71f
Actor–Network Theory (ANT) 180–4, 185–7, 189, 193
ADA (American Disabilities Act) 51
Adams, Jon 142; A space where 2 people meet 137, 137f, Plate 4
Adams, Robert: The Asclepius Machine, Beijing 110–11, 110f
affect 193
affirmation model of disability 20, 20n,193–4
age 55
Ageing Facilities: Resistant Seating Project 155–6, 156f, Plate 11
agency 109–10
Ahmed, Sara 85, 89
AIO see Architecture-InsideOut
Allies and Morrison 146, 147, 148f
Alsop, Will 162f
alternative architectural manifestos 169–74
ambiguities: dis/ordinary occupancy 120–1; and stereotypes 3–5, 187–8
American Disabilities Act (ADA) 51
Anderberg, Peter 16, 27, 29, 100, 104, 106, 107, 120–1, 194; ‘Parrot, Chameleon and Poodle Methods’ 103, 104–5
Ankin, Chris Plate 6
ANT see Actor–Network Theory
‘anyone’ 44–6, 56
Araniello, Katherine...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Dedication
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of figures
- List of plates
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: why do disability differently?
- Section I Starting from disability
- Section II Re-connecting architecture with dis/ability
- Section III Doing architecture and dis/ability differently
- Glossary of terms
- Bibliography
- Index