Literature on Universal Design and the Built Environment
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Title
Literature on Universal Design and the Built Environment
Description
This collection addresses existing literature that deals with universal design in the built environment as well as in relation to material objects. While not dealing exclusively about the intersection of disabled doctors and universal design, this collection hopes to point audiences to books that may serve as starting points for disabled doctors as well as the able-bodied community around them to start thinking about what it would mean and what it would look like for disabled doctors to have their voices heard and consequential in the altering and changing of medical environments such as hospitals, clinics, rehabilitation centers, and more.
Collection Items
Building Access: Universal Design and the Politics of Disabilityby Aimi Hamraie (University of Minnesota Press, 2017)
“All too often,” wrote disabled architect Ronald Mace, “designers don’t take the needs of disabled and elderly people into account.” Building Access investigates twentieth-century strategies for designing the world with disability in mind. Commonly…
Accessible America: A History of Disability and Designby Bess Williamson (NYU Press, 2019)
Have you ever hit the big blue button to activate automatic doors? Have you ever used an ergonomic kitchen tool? Have you ever used curb cuts to roll a stroller across an intersection? If you have, then you’ve benefited from accessible design—design…
What Can a Body Do?by Sara Hendren (Riverhead Books, 2020)
Furniture and tools, kitchens and campuses and city streets—nearly everything human beings make and use is assistive technology, meant to bridge the gap between body and world. Yet unless, or until, a misfit between our own body and the world is…
The Architecture of Disability: Buildings, Cities, and Landscapes Beyond Access by David Gissen (University of Minnesota Press, January 2023 – forthcoming)
Disability critiques of architecture usually emphasize the need for modification and increased access, butThe Architecture of Disabilitycalls for a radical reorientation of this perspective by situating experiences of impairment as a new foundation…
Doing Disability Differently: An Alternative Handbook on Architecture, Dis/ability and Designing for Everyday Life by Jos Boys (Taylor and Francis, 2014)
This 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…