Designing and Delivering Differently: Exploring Ways to Rethink Access and Inclusion
“We urgently need to reshape the habitual and deeply sedimented ways in which disability as a concept and disabled people as a diverse group are labelled, both in our society, and within architectural and development theory and practice. We cannot go on being content with this “normal” way of operating, which doesn’t serve most disabled people well or even adequately. As professionals, we need to stop and pay attention precisely because we want to understand our actions and responsibilities; and to explicitly design more inclusively and sustainably.”
- Jos Boys
In this article ‘Designing and Delivering Differently’, Jos Boys writes on practical strategies that explore disability as a creative generator. The article was written for 'Designing with Difference' - a digital publication by Molonglo, exploring what it means to create and deliver truly accessible built space. Beyond building code and universal design, this was a provocation to do design differently and to centre difference as a creative generator.
Read or listen to the full article here.
'Designing with Difference' was made up of two essays by Dr Jos Boys, “Shifting the Ground” and “Designing and Delivering Differently”, two accompanying resource sections and “Three Bodies”, a short documentary film by Dorothy Allen Pickard.
