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“Universal Design” Approach for the Participation of the Disabled in Urban Life
Author(s)
Ayşe Sirel1 and Osman Ümit Sirel2
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DOI:10.17265/1934-7359/2018.01.002
Affiliation(s)
1. Faculty of Architecture and Design, Istanbul Aydin University, Istanbul 34295, Turkey;
2. Faculty of Architecture and Design, Bahçeşehir University, Istanbul 34353, Turkey
ABSTRACT
Disability can occur to anyone and anyone can have difficulties in
fulfilling daily activities in a certain part of their lives. Accessibility is
a crucial matter and a basic human right for the disabled people in order to
join the urban life. For this reason, the physical environment must be set,
starting with the planning and design stage, in a form that can satisfy the
utility and accessibility requirements of disabled people. One of the most
important recent concepts to enable accessible and useful spaces for the
disabled is the “universal design”. Nowadays, even though there is an increase
in the number of scientific publications, meetings and decisions taken, the
regulatory process on our current living environment is developing slowly
regarding the physical accessibility. At this point, the most important role
regarding the handling of social and political paradigms of disability,
addressing different users, application of the principals of universal design
and creating knowledge in order to increase social awareness belongs to the
departments of universities that offer design courses. The subject of the study
in this context is to determine the contents and the proportion of the courses
(compulsory and elective) related to “universal design and “disability design”,
which will ensure our living environment to be accessible and independently
utilized for everyone, in the course plan of the architecture, interior
architecture, urban planning and landscape architecture departments in Turkey.
KEYWORDS
Handicapped, disability, accessibility, universal design, design for disabled people.
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