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Record Nr.

UNINA9910967687203321

Autore

Boys Jos

Titolo

Doing Disability Differently : An alternative handbook on architecture, dis/ability and designing for everyday life / / Jos Boys

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, : Taylor and Francis, 2014

ISBN

1-317-69381-7

1-315-77755-X

1-317-69382-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (243 p.)

Disciplina

725.54

725/.54

Soggetti

Architecture -- Human factors

Architecture and society

Barrier-free design

Barrier-free design - Human factors

Architecture

People with disabilities in art

Art, Architecture & Applied Arts

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

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; 1 Challenging commonsense; 2 Beyond accessibility; 3 Unravelling dis/ordinary occupancy; Section II Re-connecting architecture with dis/ability; 4 Destabilizing architecture?; 5 On feeling and beauty; 6 Bodies, buildings, devices and augmentation; Section III Doing architecture and dis/ability differently; 7 Alternative mappings; 8 Strategies and tactics; 9 Re-thinking the normal

Glossary of termsBibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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