“We need to go beyond legislation to a cultural change, where disability is treated as an identity to be celebrated.”
Brilliant article in the FT on housing design for disability and the aesthetics of accessibility
https://www.ft.com/content/05309cf9-96d9-460f-b529-5f34b81316aa
@CiaraNi @DrPKR @anon_opin
This is what we're up against - architects considering users as a threat
Taken from the slides of my inaugural professorial lecture in March 2024, available to view here:
New publication by my friend and collaborator Prof Julie Zook and colleagues on hospital ward layouts, showing that a more visually open corridor layout supported higher levels of care team communication
Corridors don't just connect things - they are important spaces for knowledge work
https://doi.org/10.1177/19375867241250331
#SpaceSyntax #ArchitectureOfCare #ArchitecturalResearch #Hospital #Hospitals
Amazing work by my former UCL colleague Thandi Loewensen and a series of other artists challenging the colonial view of displays in the RIBA HQ building in London
https://theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/apr/29/racist-things-riba-decolonising-hq-jarvis-mural
#ArchitectureOfCare #Architecture #ArchitecturalResearch #archidon
Professor Kerstin Sailer