Doing Disability Differently : An alternative handbook on architecture, dis/ability and designing for everyday life / / Jos Boys
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Boys Jos
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Doing Disability Differently : An alternative handbook on architecture, dis/ability and designing for everyday life / / Jos Boys
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| Pubblicazione: | Hoboken, : Taylor and Francis, 2014 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (243 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 725.54 |
| 725/.54 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Architecture -- Human factors |
| Architecture and society | |
| Barrier-free design | |
| Barrier-free design - Human factors | |
| Architecture | |
| People with disabilities in art | |
| Art, Architecture & Applied Arts | |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Doing Disability Differently |
| ISBN: | 1-317-69381-7 |
| 1-315-77755-X | |
| 1-317-69382-5 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910967687203321 |
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