Mobilizing disability experience to inform architectural education lessons learned from a field experiment

Heylighen, Ann; Vermeersch, Peter-Willem

doi:10.1109/engineering4society.2015.7177899

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Housing at the fulcrum: a systems approach to uncovering built environment obstacles to city scale accessibility and inclusion

Tucker

Kelly

Johnson

et al. 2021

J Hous and the Built Environ

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In the context of rising numbers of people with disability in Australian cities, this paper describes a study determining actions to overcome unintended obstacles in the built environment to city-scale accessibility and inclusivity in a regional city in Australia. Prior studies have largely failed to connect social inclusion obstacles in the built environment with factors leading to social exclusion in other domains that have impact on, and are impacted by, the built environment. An approach based on systems thinking allowed a wide range of stakeholders, including many with lived-experience of disability, to exchange ideas in a short timeframe linking the built environment with other obstacles to accessible and inclusive cities. One hundred and nineteen actions were identified to overcome these obstacles, with 37 of these prioritised according to impact and feasibility. Nineteen of these 37 are imbedded in the built environment. Access to appropriate and affordable housing was identified as a key factor across all domains. Importantly, it was found that access for people with disability to appropriately designed and affordable housing was at the fulcrum of many other issues, across numerous city domains, that created obstacles to meaningful living and fulfilled lives. The process advanced understanding of how housing is impacted by, and has impacts on, a wide sphere of socio-political and physical contexts. Disability • Inclusion • Accessibility • Housing • Systems-thinking * Richard Tucker

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Housing at the fulcrum: a systems approach to uncovering built environment obstacles to city scale accessibility and inclusion

Tucker

Kelly

Johnson

et al. 2021

J Hous and the Built Environ

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Participatory design for the development of inclusive educational technologies: A systematic review

Borges

Araujo

Maciél

et al. 2016

2016 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE)

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Eisazadeh,

Heylighen,

Houbart

2023

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The relation between accessibility and conservation is often contested, resulting in tensions between accessibility advocates and heritage experts. While the importance and necessity of accessibility and gradually the broader notion of inclusivity for diverse users (e.g. disabled people) is becoming more evident, existing discussions mainly focuses on the issues and problems of accessibility in the heritage context. In this article, instead of focusing on the constraints, we present disability experience as a generative resource rather than hindering liability. Disabled people, referred to as ‘the other’ and ‘strangers in their own land’, similar to people with different ethnicities, cultures and genders, have been subject to discrimination. In the heritage practice, the notion of self and other is mainly focused on colonial and occupied heritage. Additionally, it can be seen in the division between heritage experts and the others. Acknowledging the existing challenges at the crossroad of accessibility and conservation, following the example of research that rethinks disability’s meaning and its impact on architecture, our research on inclusive built heritage builds upon methods used in the context of inclusive design and adapts them for the heritage context in order to gain insights into disabled people’s experience of built heritage. By conducting multiple case studies in diverse heritage sites in collaboration with disabled people as user/experts, we observe the potential of the theoretical and methodological output of the research for the broader conservation practice, which is gradually moving towards collaborative approaches involving diverse others. The approach put forward by our research provides an opportunity to rethink our normative approach in heritage conservation, questioning assumptions and habits (in e.g. heritage evaluation) and challenging our preconceptions.

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Mobilizing disability experience to inform architectural education lessons learned from a field experiment

Cited by 3 publications

References 10 publications

Housing at the fulcrum: a systems approach to uncovering built environment obstacles to city scale accessibility and inclusion

Housing at the fulcrum: a systems approach to uncovering built environment obstacles to city scale accessibility and inclusion

Participatory design for the development of inclusive educational technologies: A systematic review

Potencjał doświadczenia niepełnosprawności dla dziedzictwa.

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