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Author : | Jones P. | |
Title | Situating universal design architecture: Designing with whom? |
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| Reference : | Jones P.; Situating universal design architecture: Designing with whom? ;Disability and Rehabilitation vol:36 issue: 16.0 page:1369 |
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| Link to article | https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84905501474&doi=10.3109%2f09638288.2014.944274&partnerID=40&md5=5706bcdcac4abbbc5b3d6948127eaead |
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| Abstract | Purpose: To respond to growing calls for a theoretical unpacking of Universal Design (UD), a disparate movement cohering around attempts to design spaces and technologies that seek to allow use by all people (to the fullest extent possible). The on-going embedding of UD into architectural practice and pedagogy represents an opportune juncture at which to draw learning from other distinct-but-related transformatory architectural movements. Methods: Sociological-theoretical commentary. Results: UD has to date, and necessarily, been dominated by the practice contexts from which it emerged. Appealing as a short-hand for description of designing-for-all, in most cases UD has come to stand in as a term to signal a general intent in this direction and as an umbrella term for the range of technical design resources that have been developed under these auspices. There remains a fundamental ambivalence vis-à-vis the question of users power/capacity to influence decision-making in the design process in UD; technically-oriented typologies of bodies predominate in influential UD architectural accounts. Conclusions: UD represents rich technical and pedagogical resources for those architects committed to transforming the existing built environment so as to be less hostile to a wide range of users. However, within UD, unpacking the social role of the professional architect vis-à-vis a variety of publics is an important, but hitherto underdeveloped, challenge; issues concerning professional-citizen power relations continue to animate parallel architectural politics, and UD can both contribute and draw much from these on-going explorations.Implications for RehabilitationUniversal Design (UD) architecture shares a close affinity with rehabilitation practice, with the creation of built environments that allow use by individuals with a wide range of capacities a priority for both.While an effective communicative bridge between professions, UDs deployment typically leaves unspoken the capacity of users to meaningfully affect decision-making in the design process.UD architecture has much to draw from, and contribute to, parallel movements in participatory architectural design; debates therein have illuminated much about the social practices underpinning designing for difference.UD could engage more fully with questions relating to the social and political role of the architect. © 2014 Informa UK Ltd. |
Results:
| Impact |
Certainity |
| Health_and_Wellbeing | 0.0115 |
| Urban_and_Territorial_Renovation | 0.0090 |
| Peoples_Engagement_and_Participation | 0.9928 |
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