{"product_id":"9780415824958-doing-disability-differently","title":"Doing Disability Differently","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAn alternative handbook on architecture, dis\/ability and designing for everyday life. \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDoing Disability Differently o\u003c\/em\u003epens up new and innovative ways of addressing disability through architectural design.\u003c\/p\u003e. \u003cp\u003eThis 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?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTo do this, \u003ci\u003eDoing Disability Differently\u003c\/i\u003e:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eexplores how thinking about dis\/ability opens up to critical and creative investigation our everyday social attitudes and practices about people, objects and space\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eargues that design can help resist and transform underlying and unnoticed inequalities\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eintroduces architects to the emerging and important field of disability studies and considers what different kinds of design thinking and doing this can enable\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003easks how designing for everyday life – in all its diversity – can be better embedded within contemporary architecture as a discipline\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eoffers examples of what doing disability differently can mean for architectural theory, education and professional practice\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eaims to embed into architectural practice, attitudes and approaches that creatively and constructively refuse to perpetuate body 'norms' or the resulting inequalities in access to, and support from, built space.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUltimately, this book suggests that re-addressing architecture and disability involves nothing less than re-thinking how to design for the everyday occupation of space more generally.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40809118531681,"sku":"9780415824958","price":52.98,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/390953dd42e65b364f1294e3cd4d6ca4.png?v=1682599301","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780415824958-doing-disability-differently","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}