Mobilizing Disability Experience to Inform Architectural Practice: Lessons Learned from a Field Study

Through their bodily interaction with the designed environment, disabled people can detect obstacles and appreciate spatial qualities architects may not be attuned to. While designers in several disciplines acknowledge disabled people as lead or critical users, in architectural practice their embodi...

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Main Authors: Peter-Willem Vermeersch, Ann Heylighen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Athabasca University Press 2015-12-01
Series:Journal of Research Practice
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Online Access:http://jrp.icaap.org/index.php/jrp/article/view/495