Doing Disability Differently

This 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?

To do this, Doing Disability Differently:

• explores how thinking about dis/ability opens up to critical and creative investigation our everyday social attitudes and practices about people, objects and space
• argues that design can help resist and transform underlying and unnoticed inequalities
• introduces architects to the emerging and important field of disability studies and considers what different kinds of design thinking and doing this can enable
• asks how designing for everyday life ¿ in all its diversit