Inclusive/universal design: People at the center of the design process

Model System:

TBI

Reference Type:

Journal

Accession No.:

J73299

Journal:

In Mitra Kanaani and Dak Kopec (Eds.). The Routledge Companion for Architecture Design and Practice. New York, NY: Taylor and Francis Group

Year, Volume, Issue, Page(s):

2016 , , , 251-267

Publication Website:

http://athomewithgrowingold.com/wp-content/uploads/Inclusive-Universal-Design-People-at-the-Center-of-the-Design-Process-Routledge-12-15-small.pdf

Abstract:

This chapter frames design as a social art and describes a long, if intermittent, history of designing for people. The author notes the extraordinary demographics of the twenty-first century in which people across the world live longer than ever and survive illness and injury at rates unimaginable even a generation ago. She makes a case for a sense of urgency for design that anticipates diversity of ability as normative and offers examples of promising practices in design that minimize disability and facilitate well-being, performance, and independence.

Author(s):

Fletcher, Valerie