Network Rail launches inclusive design strategy
Network Rail has set up a built environment accessibility panel and vowed to use inclusive design principals to make the rail system more usable for people with disabilities.
New App Is Mapping the Accessible City
For Steve Lewis, board president of the Alliance of People with disAbilities, navigating downtown Seattle is an awful experience. He uses a wheelchair, and Seattle’s steep hills can be a significant barrier to access.
How to Build Inclusive Cities
How do we build cities in which everyone—regardless of gender, sexual orientation, race, age, or ability—can live and thrive? Unfortunately, no silver-bullet answers or cookie-cutter solutions exist. But there are some imitable strategies that cities and citizens around the world are employing, and some of these were discussed at the Brookings Institution on Thursday.
How TD Bank HQ achieved WELL certification
Landlord-tenant partnership leads to world’s first v1 certification under WELL standard An interiors project for TD Bank headquarters, located in the TD Centre in downtown Toronto, recently became the world’s first project certified under v1 of the WELL Building Standard. What turned out to be a 18-month long process—optimizing 25,000 square feet of the 23rd floor—was […]
Using Virtual Reality To Walk in the Shoes of Someone With Alzheimer’s
Most everyone knows that Alzheimer’s disease means memory loss. But dementia, which affects nearly 50 million people worldwide, is about more than losing your keys or forgetting your children’s names. People living with Alzheimer’s (the most common type of dementia) and related conditions, such as frontotemporal dementia and Lewy body dementia, can suffer symptoms like disorientation, light […]
Shouldn’t all homes be inclusive?
I have to say I particularly enjoy the challenge of getting stuck in to an individual home project. It’s extremely rewarding to see how much of a difference a bit of lateral thinking, and sometimes just a few small changes, can make to the way a house works for a family. Perhaps by releasing a […]
Transportation must connect communities to opportunity
FENWAY PARK IS Major League Baseball’s oldest ballpark. Even with its age-old quirks and idiosyncrasies, Fenway represents the best of baseball’s august traditions, from the red seat that marks the longest home run ever hit there (502 feet, by Ted Williams, on June 9, 1946) to its verdant wall high above left field. However, in […]
BlindNewWorld Challenges Everything You Think You Know about Blindness
A new social change movement has been created to help dispel the misinformation surrounding the capabilities and limitations of those who are blind or have low vision, and to help sighted individuals learn how to interact with individuals with blindness or low vision.BlindNewWorld, sponsored by the Perkins School for the Blind, aims to improve inclusion […]
INCLUSIVE OR EXCLUSIVE DESIGN?
This article originally appears in Design for All Institute of India May 2016 (Prof Pekka Harni, Finland) Vol-11 No-5. by PEKKA HARNI | Professor, Architect, Designer, Finland CULTURAL EVOLUTION OF OBJECTS AND BUILT ENVIRONMENT The slow evolution of handcrafted artefacts and buildings from the Stone Age to the initial stages of industrial manufacturing has shaped […]
A new hope for hikers with disabilities – access to information
Portland-based Access Recreation isn’t pushing for better access on trails, it’s pushing for better access to information on trails. For these hikers, that makes a world of difference.