Output details
16 - Architecture, Built Environment and Planning
Leeds Beckett University
Article title
Design for All : Architecture and Democracy
Type
D - Journal article
DOI
-
Title of journal
MIMARLIK, Chamber of Architects of Turkey Publications.
Article number
-
Volume number
347
Issue number
-
First page of article
28
ISSN of journal
1300-4212
Year of publication
2009
Number of additional authors
0
Additional information
-
Interdisciplinary
-
Cross-referral requested
-
Research group
None
Proposed double-weighted
No
Double-weighted statement
-
Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
Yes
English abstract
In the neoliberal condition, the disabled and the elderly are expected to be less dependent on the state and their fellow citizens and eventually become productive citizens. Design for All potentially enables them to do so and makes everybody content with the idea of living into an inclusive society. What is included however is only that which conforms to the norm. Design for All is not just a technical issue but can be better understood as a ‘technology of power’. Can architecture education reinforce Design for All as a political activity and experiment with emerging forms of a post-consensual democracy?
