#architectureofcare — Public Fediverse posts

“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

#disability #architecture #housing #ArchitectureOfCare

@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:

https://vimeo.com/925814729

#ArchitectureOfCare #SociologyOfArchitecture

@CiaraNi @DrPKR @anon_opin
I so wish this was the case. It runs all the way down into education, where we need to teach aspiring young architects how to engage properly with users
#ArchitectureOfCare

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

@torgo
That's a nice example of a building with an attractive staircase having some sort of accessible version of stairs (the escalator) nearby and with equal exposure to nice views and daylight.
Do you happen to remember where the lifts were?
#Architecture #disability #ArchitectureOfCare #staircase