The concept of disability
This video introduces the construction industry to how we might understand functional impairment and disability as something which can come to influence everybody’s life. This is done by explaining the ‘biopsychosocial model of disability’. The model shows that disability occurs as a consequence of the individual, social, medical, and built context, never from any one of these alone.
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Scientific articles
The disability model: The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health: ICF, page 9.
Boys, J. (2014). Doing disability differently: An alternative handbook on architecture, dis/ability and designing for everyday life. Routledge.
Hall, P., & Imrie, R. (1999). Architectural practices and disabling design in the built environment. Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, 26(3), 409–425. https://doi.org/10.1068/b260409
Kajita, M. (2017). Re-Addressing the Social Dimension of Accessibility. In K. Lotz, D. Simpson, K. M. Raahauge, K. Vindum, M. Jerl Jensen, & J. Rosenberg Bendsen (Eds.), Forming welfare (1. edition, pp. 280–291). Danish Architectural Press.
Books
Boys, J. (Ed.). (2017). Disability, space, architecture: A reader. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.
Hendren, S. (2020). What can a body do? How we meet the built world. Riverhead Books.
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Marcus Tang Merit
Marcus Tang Merit is writing an industrial PhD in collaboration with the Danish Royal Academy and Gottlieb Paludan Architects
Member of the Bevica Foundation’s research network
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