New paper alert!
"Disabled syntax: Using configurational thinking to capture the building experience of diverse body-minds" in collaboration with Nina Vollenbroker, Jos Boys and Mine Sak-Acur is now available to read:
https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10224598/
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In the paper we:
... discuss how the architecture discourse has begun to include disabled perspectives;
... critique how the space syntax community has mostly ignored bodily difference in the past,
... and praise noteworthy exceptions;
... report from a building exploration of a campus building, where we've invited eight creatives with diverse disabilities to reflect on the architecture and their experiences of inclusion and exclusion, of feeling welcome and of being expected;
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In the paper we:
... use the modelling tools of space syntax in creative and exploratory ways to represent and visualise a subset of experiences of people with disabilities (e.g. the overwhelming sensory experience);
... reflect on the shortcomings of the method but also:
... highlight how the visualisations help communicate building strengths and weaknesses and contribute to a possible diagnostic process of evaluation of layouts in the future
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Full credits:
Project funded by Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL
Co-authors: Nina Vollenbroker, Jos Boys, Mine Sak-Acur
Insights generated by our co-creators Coco Briden, Christopher Laing, David Johnson, Jessica Thom, Jessica Ryan-Ndegwa, Jordan Whitewood-Neal, Mandy Redvers Rowe and Natasha Trotman
This has been a fantastic project and a joy to work on, there'll be more to come in the future
Professor Kerstin Sailer