Doing Disability Differently av Jos (Northumbria University UK) Boys

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<P>This ground-breaking book aims to take a new and innovative view on how disability and architecture might be connected. Rather than putting disability at the end of the design process, centred mainly on compliance, it sees disability ¿ and ability ¿ as creative starting points for the whole design process. It asks the intriguing question: can working from dis/ability actually generate an alternative kind of architectural avant-garde?</P><P>To do this, <I>Doing Disability Differently</I>:</P><UL><LI>explores how thinking about dis/ability opens up to critical and creative investigation our everyday social attitudes and practices about people, objects and space</LI><LI>argues that design can help resist and transform underlying and unnoticed inequalities</LI><LI>introduces architects to the emerging and important field of disability studies and considers what different kinds of design thinking and doing this can enable</LI><LI>asks how designing for everyday life ¿ in all its diversit