Good morning everyone its been a pleasure to meet everyoen and share in your designs. I've just taken a look at the comments and its fantastic to hear that you are all finding different elements useful.It would be good to hear from you what part of the process has changed your approach?
You have had a lot of information to take in over a short period of time so I understand your having to work quickly to retain your vision of the space/s.
In reply to the How not to do it: NOT using the disabled toilet at the Truman's Brewery-I have for years along with many other disabled people wondered why disabled people's toilets are still seen as segregated units from other toilets? And yes on the one hand, it may be to do with space, but on the other it still separates disabled people and I think design schemes! It would be incredible to see in your designs accessible toilets that are not separate. I think this common theme of separation resonates with disabled people all the time and I think it makes designing first class spaces for all difficult and less fluid forget the usual approach! I'd be interested to see how you all rub out the separation lines and design powerful and exciting schemes that don't need the separate spaces that continue to dampen inclusive design. It may be that you just write this on your designs as a key theme for your proposal at this stage or show it through visuals. It can be applied to any thought you have in your schemes about everyones experience in the space whether that is the lift, entrance, washrooms, performance area, cat walk, studios, parking and all the other inspiring ideas you have suggested.
Inside Out: Discursive Spaces is a collaboration between deaf and disabled artists and interior architecture students at the University of Brighton. Over a period of weeks, 7 artists will be bringing their insights to a student design project in progress - for artists' studios in a warehouse in East London.
Here, we are interested in opening up discussions about:
How to enable design students to learn from the experiences of deaf and disabled people
What makes good design for a diversity of users
How deaf and disabled artists can inform building design more generally
Please join in.
This project is funded by the Arts Council. We would also like to thank the Old Truman Brewery for their support.
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Good morning everyone its been a pleasure to meet everyoen and share in your designs. I've just taken a look at the comments and its fantastic to hear that you are all finding different elements useful.It would be good to hear from you what part of the process has changed your approach?
You have had a lot of information to take in over a short period of time so I understand your having to work quickly to retain your vision of the space/s.
In reply to the How not to do it: NOT using the disabled toilet at the Truman's Brewery-I have for years along with many other disabled people wondered why disabled people's toilets are still seen as segregated units from other toilets? And yes on the one hand, it may be to do with space, but on the other it still separates disabled people and I think design schemes!
It would be incredible to see in your designs accessible toilets that are not separate. I think this common theme of separation resonates with disabled people all the time and I think it makes designing first class spaces for all difficult and less fluid forget the usual approach! I'd be interested to see how you all rub out the separation lines and design powerful and exciting schemes that don't need the separate spaces that continue to dampen inclusive design. It may be that you just write this on your designs as a key theme for your proposal at this stage or show it through visuals. It can be applied to any thought you have in your schemes about everyones experience in the space whether that is the lift, entrance, washrooms, performance area, cat walk, studios, parking and all the other inspiring ideas you have suggested.
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