Design Meets Disability

Pullin, Graham; Higginbotham, D. Jeffery

doi:10.3109/07434618.2010.532926

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“…In considering design that does address diversity, Graham Pullin [14] (pp. 41,43) detects that 'aesthetic qualities are not usually considered in design for disability, and when they are, it is often as an afterthought, a final cosmetic treatment of an already resolved and acceptable design.…”

Section: My [Disabled] Bodymentioning

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“…In defining it in this way, the ADA situates disability closest to the body and, in line with medical discourse, does not acknowledge external factors of the socio-material context that the disabled person lives in; it does not contextualize the disabled person. It is mainly through legislation that most designers approach accessibility matters, which they perceive as constricting their creativity, rather than enriching overall design quality [14] (p. 45). Marta, however, has a physical impairment and lives in an environment that does not limit her major life activities.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…This lack of attitude to address diversity implies perceiving the atypical body as in need of special design. Design for such "exceptions" is currently understood as a burden, a highly technical matter, something that hampers architects' creativity [14] (pp. 43,45) [15] (p. 35).…”

Section: My Bodymentioning

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“…Although design professionals are starting to implement care for aesthetics in the disability realm [14] (p. 49), the design industry comes from a widely established trend that accessible products had a dominant orthopedic/hospital-looking appearance and a strong "for the disabled" stigma attached to them. Design for wheelchair users most often revolves around enabling to "do things", i.e., reducing activity restrictions, rather than addressing what things look like.…”

Section: A House That Challenges Assumptionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Designing from a Disabled Body: The Case of Architect Marta Bordas Eddy

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2018

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Studies on design, disability and phenomenology offer rich insights into how the designed environment is experienced by people with different abilities. In architectural design, this experience is only starting to become recognized as a valuable resource for designers. Considering disability as a particular kind of experience, we report on the focused ethnography of architect Marta Bordas Eddy's design practice. We analyze how her design practice and outcomes connect with her embodied experience of being a wheelchair user and the role of architecture therein. We interviewed Marta, her sister/co-worker and her life partner/co-habitant, gathered design documents, and analyzed the house she designed for and by herself. Our study highlights how Marta's experience of being disabled, combined with her background, informs how she assesses design and establishes distinct architectural qualities. Being a disabled person and a designer enables Marta to detect problems in an intuitive body-based manner and think of solutions at the same time. The analysis of Marta's house moreover raises awareness of architecture's role in (disabled) people's lives insofar it can support or impair human capabilities. It challenges prevailing views of what a house for a disabled person looks and is like, and how design can neutralize apparently restricted capabilities.

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Section: My [Disabled] Bodymentioning

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Section: A House That Challenges Assumptionsmentioning

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Section: My Bodymentioning

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Designing from a Disabled Body: The Case of Architect Marta Bordas Eddy

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2018

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“…To the necessity a user-centred design approach As Pullin (2011) explains, disabled people as expert co-designers have to be involved in the design approach used in this case. When design meets disability, the diversity of complementary, even contradictory, approaches can enrich each field.…”

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How 3D printing technologies can contribute into an iterative design process? Case study to hit a drum for Disabled Children

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Coton

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In the Assistive Technology area and design for disability, users must be taken into account during the design process. Multidisciplinary design team is constituted and an adapted design methodology used. In this design case study, this team has to develop an electromechanical drumstick dedicated to percussion instruments. Objective is to allow Disabled Children to hit a drum using an automated drumstick. Authors proposed to used of available Rapid Prototyping (RP) Technologies all along the design process. Different RP technologies were manipulated by engineerins and engineering students to be able to validate progressively product functions and news ideas and designs. The results indicates that one RP technology can be chosen in correlation with a new iteration of the design methodology. The availability of RP technologies helps the multidisciplinary team to validate progressively the product according to requirements. This experiment contributes to the development of different prototypes over the years.

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