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Book Designing for the Disabled

Download or read book Designing for the Disabled written by Selwyn Goldsmith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1997 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designing for the Disabled is concerned with architecturally disabled people, those who when using or attempting to use buildings can find themselves confronted by impediments.

Book Designing for the Disabled  The New Paradigm

Download or read book Designing for the Disabled The New Paradigm written by Selwyn Goldsmith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-09-10 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selwyn Goldsmith's Designing for the Disabled has, since it was first published in 1963, been a bible for practising architects around the world. Now, as a new book with a radical new vision, comes his Designing for the Disabled: The New Paradigm. Goldsmith's new paradigm is based on the concept of architectural disability. As a version of the social model of disability, it is not exclusively the property of physically disabled people. Others who are afflicted by it include women, since men customarily get proportionately four times as many amenities in public toilets as women - and women have to queue where men do not - and those with infants in pushchairs, because normal WC facilities are invariably too small to get a pushchair and infant into. To counter architectural disability, Goldsmith's line is that the axiom for legislation action has to be 'access for everyone' - it should not just be 'access for the disabled', as it presently is with the Part M building regulation and relevant provisions of the 1995 Disability Discrimination Act. In a 40-page annex to his book he sets out the terms that a new-style Part M regulation and its Approved Document might take, one that would cover alterations to existing buildings as well as new buildings. But architects and building control officers need not, he says, wait for new a legislation to apply new practical procedures to meet the requirements of the current Part M regulation; they can, as he advises, act positively now. This is a book which will oblige architects to rethink the methodology of designing for the disabled. It is a book that no practising architect, building control officer, local planning officer or access officer can afford to be without.

Book Designing for the Disabled

Download or read book Designing for the Disabled written by Selwyn Goldsmith and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Designing for the Disabled

Download or read book Designing for the Disabled written by S. Goldsmith and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Are you an inclusive designer

Download or read book Are you an inclusive designer written by Julie Fleck and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-18 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite improvements in the last 20 years we still have a long way to go before all of our buildings, places and spaces are easy and comfortable for all of us to use. This book puts forward a powerful case for a totally new attitude towards inclusivity and accessibility. Exploring both the social and the business cases for striving for better, this book will empower architects to have more enlightened discussions with their clients about why we should be striving for better than the bare minimum, and challenging the notion that inclusive design should be thought of reductively as simply a list of “special features” to be added to a final design, or that inclusivity is only about wheelchair access. This book will be to help make inclusive design business as usual rather than something that is added on to address legislation at the end of the development process. Accessible and engaging, this book will be an invaluable resource for students as well as practicing architects, richly illustrated with case studies showing both good and bad examples of inclusive design and celebrating inclusion.

Book Designing Around People

Download or read book Designing Around People written by Pat Langdon and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-02-09 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the proceedings of the 8th Cambridge Workshop on Universal Access and Assistive Technology (CWUAAT '16), incorporating the 11th Cambridge Workshop on Rehabilitation Robotics, held in Cambridge, England in March 2016. It presents novel and state-of-the-art research from an international group of leaders in the fields of universal access and assistive technology. It explores various issues including the reconciliation of usability, accessibility and inclusive design, the design of inclusive assistive and rehabilitation systems, measuring product demand and human capabilities, data mining and visualizing inclusion, legislation in inclusive design, and situational inclusive interfaces (automotive and aerospace). This book provides an invaluable resource to researchers, postgraduates, design practitioners, therapists and clinical practitioners, as well as design teachers.

Book Housing and Social Policy

Download or read book Housing and Social Policy written by Peter Somerville and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-09-19 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This topical book transforms the analysis of housing problems into a lively, interesting and contentious subject of social scientific study, addressing themes of residential experience, inclusion/empowerment, sustainability and professionalism/managerialism, which lie at the heart of the housing and social policy debate. Each chapter considers a specific social category - such as class, gender, or disability - and evaluates the experience and understanding of housing and social policy under this category. With innovative approaches to conceptualising housing and a clear, defined structure, Housing and Social Policy encourages students and practitioners in both arenas to think reflexively about housing as a central instrument of social policy and social experience.

Book Doing Disability Differently

Download or read book Doing Disability Differently written by Jos Boys and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-23 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Disability  Space  Architecture  A Reader

Download or read book Disability Space Architecture A Reader written by Jos Boys and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-02-17 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disability, Space, Architecture: A Reader takes a groundbreaking approach to exploring the interconnections between disability, architecture and cities. The contributions come from architecture, geography, anthropology, health studies, English language and literature, rhetoric and composition, art history, disability studies and disability arts and cover personal, theoretical and innovative ideas and work. Richer approaches to disability – beyond regulation and design guidance – remain fragmented and difficult to find for architectural and built environment students, educators and professionals. By bringing together in one place some seminal texts and projects, as well as newly commissioned writings, readers can engage with disability in unexpected and exciting ways that can vibrantly inform their understandings of architecture and urban design. Most crucially, Disability, Space, Architecture: A Reader opens up not just disability but also ability – dis/ability – as a means of refusing the normalisation of only particular kinds of bodies in the design of built space. It reveals how our everyday social attitudes and practices about people, objects and spaces can be better understood through the lens of disability, and it suggests how thinking differently about dis/ability can enable innovative and new kinds of critical and creative architectural and urban design education and practice.

Book Disability Histories

    Book Details:
  • Author : Susan Burch
  • Publisher : University of Illinois Press
  • Release : 2014-12-30
  • ISBN : 025209669X
  • Pages : 417 pages

Download or read book Disability Histories written by Susan Burch and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2014-12-30 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The field of disability history continues to evolve rapidly. In this collection, Susan Burch and Michael Rembis present essays that integrate critical analysis of gender, race, historical context, and other factors to enrich and challenge the traditional modes of interpretation still dominating the field. Contributors delve into four critical areas of study within disability history: family, community, and daily life; cultural histories; the relationship between disabled people and the medical field; and issues of citizenship, belonging, and normalcy. As the first collection of its kind in over a decade, Disability Histories not only brings readers up to date on scholarship within the field but fosters the process of moving it beyond the U.S. and Western Europe by offering work on Africa, South America, and Asia. The result is a broad range of readings that open new vistas for investigation and study while encouraging scholars at all levels to redraw the boundaries that delineate who and what is considered of historical value. Informed and accessible, Disability Histories is essential for classrooms engaged in all facets of disability studies within and across disciplines.

Book Instructional design Theories and Models  A new paradigm of instructional theory

Download or read book Instructional design Theories and Models A new paradigm of instructional theory written by Charles M. Reigeluth and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second edition focuses on the new generations of instructional theories and models. The theme of this volume is diversity, it includes the role of values and different kinds of learning, and how they influence instructional theory and design.

Book Externalities and Enterprise Software  Helping and Hindering Legal Compliance

Download or read book Externalities and Enterprise Software Helping and Hindering Legal Compliance written by Otter, Thomas and published by KIT Scientific Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-18 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Inclusive Design

    Book Details:
  • Author : Rob Imrie
  • Publisher : Taylor & Francis
  • Release : 2003-09-02
  • ISBN : 1135802645
  • Pages : 202 pages

Download or read book Inclusive Design written by Rob Imrie and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First book to document property professionals' attitudes and practices towards the building needs of disabled people Discusses elements of best practice in responding to disabled people's design needs Cross-national data provided Based on ESRC-funded project Supplemented by illustrated case studies

Book Universal Design

    Book Details:
  • Author : Selwyn Goldsmith
  • Publisher : Taylor & Francis
  • Release : 2007-08-22
  • ISBN : 1136350829
  • Pages : 130 pages

Download or read book Universal Design written by Selwyn Goldsmith and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2007-08-22 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Universal Design is Selwyn Goldsmith's new authoritative design manual, the successor to his internationally acclaimed Designing for the Disabled. A clear and concise design guide for practising and student architects, it describes and illustrates the differences there are between universal design and 'for the disabled' design Universal Design presents detailed design guidance for architects in an easily referenced form. Covering both public buildings and private housing, it includes informative anthropometric data, along with illustrative examples of the planning of circulation spaces, sanitary facilities, car parking spaces and seating spaces for wheelchair users in cinemas and theatres. It is a valuable manual in enhancing understanding of the basic principles of 'universal design'. The aim - to encourage architects to extend the parameters of normal provision, by looking to go beyond the prescribed minimum design standards of the Part M building regulation, Access and facilities for disabled people.

Book Situating Design in Alberta

    Book Details:
  • Author : Isabel Prochner
  • Publisher : University of Alberta
  • Release : 2022-02-17
  • ISBN : 1772125970
  • Pages : 224 pages

Download or read book Situating Design in Alberta written by Isabel Prochner and published by University of Alberta. This book was released on 2022-02-17 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Situating Design in Alberta makes the case that design has the potential to drive economic growth, improve quality of life, and promote sustainability in the province and across the country. Contributors bring both scholarly and practice-based perspectives and come from diverse disciplines including architecture, interior design, industrial design, and visual communications. The collection is organized around four main topics—history, education, business, and sustainability—within which the authors explore a wide range of issues. This synergy of different design approaches lends a sense of forward momentum to the field, stimulates reflection about opportunities and challenges for both practitioners and policy makers, and provides a model for future studies in other regions. Contributors: Tim Antoniuk, Ken Bautista, Carlos Fiorentino, Maria Goncharova, Andrea Hirji, Mark Iantkow, Barry Johns, Lyubava Kroll, Courtenay McKay, Skye Oleson-Cormack, Isabel Prochner, Janice Rieger, Elizabeth Schowalter, Megan Strickfaden, Tyler Vreeling, Ron Wickman

Book Universal Acess in Human Computer Interaction  Coping with Diversity

Download or read book Universal Acess in Human Computer Interaction Coping with Diversity written by Constantine Stephanidis and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-08-24 with total page 1069 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first of a three-volume set that constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction, UAHCI 2007, held in Beijing, China. It covers designing for universal access, universal access methods, techniques and tools, understanding motor diversity, perceptual and cognitive abilities, as well as understanding age diversity.

Book Design for Inclusivity

    Book Details:
  • Author : Roger Coleman
  • Publisher : CRC Press
  • Release : 2016-04-08
  • ISBN : 1317152468
  • Pages : 225 pages

Download or read book Design for Inclusivity written by Roger Coleman and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inclusive design not only ensures that products, services, interfaces and environments are easier to use for those with special needs or limitations, but in doing so also makes them better for everyone. Design for Inclusivity, written by a team that has pioneered inclusive design practice internationally, reviews the recent social trends and pressures that have pushed this subject to the fore, and assesses design responses to date in an international context. The authors make the business case for inclusive design and explain the formalisation of the approach in standards and legislation. The text includes case studies which describe transport, product development, IT and service projects, as well as industry-university collaborative projects, and highlights lessons that have been learned. This is very much a practical book. It offers tools, techniques, guidelines and signposts for the reader to key resources, as well as including advice on research methods, and working with users and industry partners.