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 Paradigm for the 21st century: The challenge for implementing universal design, by Wolfgang F. E. Preiser.Preiser gives us three main strategies for implementing and organizing universal design. Based on user needs he also presents three levels of building performance criteria and a process model for universal design evaluation (UDE).  Development, Promotion and Execution of Universally Designed Housing in Norway, by Jon Christophersen.
Christophersen presents an overview of the last forty years. He explains reasons for the relatively slow progress in this field and claims, among others, that what is lacking is an approach towards creating efficient, rational and practicable performance criteria for Universal Design.  Teaching universal design to students of architecture, by Sigmund Asmervik.Asmervik takes up the pedagogic challenge of universal design in his chapter,. He claims that prestigious architecture and architects do not pay enough attention to the needs of users. As a pedagogic method he goes through seven famous architectural projects around the world and comments on and criticizes the universal design aspects of these.  Architecture for the Senses, by Camilla Ryhl.
Ryhl takes as a starting point the concept of sensory accessibility which ensures that everyone can stay in the space and be able to participate, enjoy and experience. She describes and explains the importance of designing for all of our five senses - vision, hearing, touch, smell and the kinesthetic sense of balance. Within each of these categories she gives valuable advice and guidelines as to how to create good architecture that is highly appealing. |
Miljøverndepartementet har valgt ut til sammen åtte fylker som pilotfylker for universell utforming. I tillegg til Hedmark og Oppland, som skal arbeide som "par-fylke", er Østfold, Aust-Agder, Rogaland, Møre og Romsdal, Nord-Trøndelag og Finnmark gitt pilotfylke-status. Les mer på: http://www.universell-utforming.miljo.no/artikkel.shtml?id=1053  Med tidsfastsatte mål og tiltak skal hele Norge være universelt utformet innen år 2025. Det er visjonen i regjeringens handlingsplan for universell utforming og økt tilgjengelighet. Regjeringen legger opp til en skrittvis gjennomføring av tidenes største satsing på dette området, sier barne- og likestillingsminister Anniken Huitfeldt.Les mer: http://www.universell-utforming.miljo.no/artikkel.shtml?id=1043 Ny bok om utfordringene ved universell utforming og IKT Forlaget Tapir Academic Press i Trondheim lanserer i disse dager boka "Inclusive Buildings, Products & Services - Challenges in Universal Design". http://www.itfunk.org/docs/Nyheter/nyhet-bokomtale.html |
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