This is a conference paper submitted and presented at University of Bath , the International Conf... more This is a conference paper submitted and presented at University of Bath , the International Conference on Integrated Design, Building our Future in 2013
The papers in this issue reflect participants disquiet with the theoretical and conceptual conten... more The papers in this issue reflect participants disquiet with the theoretical and conceptual content of universal design, and the epistemological and methodological bases shaping its understanding of disability and design. What seems to dominate is a positivistic, scientific, tradition, placing emphasis on the production of technical, objective, knowledge and its applications. Here, a dominant focus is process-based techniques, and the evaluation of UD in relation to issues of technical feasibility and operational outcomes. There is less evidence of the deployment of alternative epistemological frameworks by proponents of UD, and limited engagement with moral and political philosophy, or substantive matters that relate to the interrelationships between design and people’s flourishing and suffering within the world. There is also vagueness, in some of the literature, about key terms underpinning UD, such as ‘universal’ and ‘universalism’, and seminar participants were keen to explore t...
The papers in this issue reflect participants disquiet with the theoretical and conceptual conten... more The papers in this issue reflect participants disquiet with the theoretical and conceptual content of universal design, and the epistemological and methodological bases shaping its understanding of disability and design. What seems to dominate is a positivistic, scientific, tradition, placing emphasis on the production of technical, objective, knowledge and its applications. Here, a dominant focus is process-based techniques, and the evaluation of UD in relation to issues of technical feasibility and operational outcomes. There is less evidence of the deployment of alternative epistemological frameworks by proponents of UD, and limited engagement with moral and political philosophy, or substantive matters that relate to the interrelationships between design and people’s flourishing and suffering within the world. There is also vagueness, in some of the literature, about key terms underpinning UD, such as ‘universal’ and ‘universalism’, and seminar participants were keen to explore the content of such foundational concepts, and their role in shaping UD discourse. The papers in the special issue outline the key issues and challenges relating to the development of UD discourse, and discuss how far it may be possible to realize its radical intent in seeking to overturn deep rooted designer conventions that rarely respond to the needs of disabled people and impaired bodies. They draw attention to the tensions between, on the one hand, the propagation of a UD discourse that is challenging of design approaches that fail to respond to corporeal diversity, and, on the other hand, the incorporation of much UD practice into conventional, conservative, design methodologies.
Este documento ofrece la primera historia de diseño inclusivo de Milton Keynes, examinando cómo ... more Este documento ofrece la primera historia de diseño inclusivo de Milton Keynes, examinando cómo se concibió la accesibilidad de la ciudad en el momento en que fue planificada y diseñada. A partir de testimonios de personas entrevistadas que recuerdan que se animó a las personas con discapacidad a vivir en Milton Keynes porque era accesible, se exploran los fundamentos de esta afirmación mediante recorridos, historias orales y pruebas documentales. El estudio revela que la “facilidad de movimiento y acceso” era uno de los objetivos de planificación de Milton Keynes y que la Open University era el lugar donde se desarrollaban los argumentos fundacionales que daban forma a la construcción social de la discapacidad. Resulta llamativo que el modelo social de la discapacidad y la injusticia de la inaccesibilidad salieran a la luz en una ciudad que fue diseñada para permitir la movilidad y la accesibilidad, aun cuando el Milton Keynes de los setenta se recuerde como un lugar que atraí...
The field of corporate real estate has been evolving since the the initial research undertaken in... more The field of corporate real estate has been evolving since the the initial research undertaken in the 1980s. Many of the studies undertaken to date are ‘snapshots’ in time: they capture practice at a single point and do not reflect the developing practice. Based on data collected over a 10 year period, this paper investigates both the focus of corporate real estate managers attention and how this may have changed over the period. It demonstrates that the key themes within corporate real estate policies, functions and activities are new working practices, outsourcing, techological infrastructure, and corporate real estate management and strategy. Over the period there has been an increase in teleworking polices, e-business and e-procurement all of which have implications for the way workspace is used and managed in the future. This establishes a base for further research.
At a point in time when technologies for remote and asynchronous forms of collaboration are perva... more At a point in time when technologies for remote and asynchronous forms of collaboration are pervasive, being able to justify the time, space and places for co-located working becomes increasingly important. This artiele provides an account of a way of working in a multidisciplinary design practice where the setting, the routine yet ordered practices, and a series of design meeting events were seen to feature in the organisation of the design work. In this account, the notion of the design meeting as an event category is questioned, as different forms of design meeting staged for different purposes were observed. In various ways the inter-disciplinary inputs to the design of a project were coordinated and this was seen to happen in a series of workplace interactions and practices that were part of the ecology of a multidisciplinary design organisation. Collectively, these situated observations support multidisciplinarity as a location-based way of working in a real-time synchronous manner
Current requirements engineering methods are heavily reliant on verbal techniques, which are inac... more Current requirements engineering methods are heavily reliant on verbal techniques, which are inaccessible to non-verbal users, such as mobility assistance dogs (MAD). Findings from a recent pilot study, conducted at a MAD training facility, show that the elicitation of canine stakeholder needs while in training is highly dependent on employee interpretation. This paper promotes the use of technology in support of meeting canine user needs, as suggested by the emerging field of Animal-Computer Interaction (ACI), by enabling trainers and employees to accurately elicit and interpret canine stakeholder requirements.
This short paper describes a collaborative and event-based installation at the Universal Design c... more This short paper describes a collaborative and event-based installation at the Universal Design conference 2014 and issues an invitation to participate. By creatively mapping the ties between people, groups, organisations and nations, the installation will illuminate the local and global networks through which Universal Design is shaped and transported. It forms part of an ongoing research project investigating the role and relevance of Universal Design around the world today.
This is a conference paper submitted and presented at University of Bath , the International Conf... more This is a conference paper submitted and presented at University of Bath , the International Conference on Integrated Design, Building our Future in 2013
The papers in this issue reflect participants disquiet with the theoretical and conceptual conten... more The papers in this issue reflect participants disquiet with the theoretical and conceptual content of universal design, and the epistemological and methodological bases shaping its understanding of disability and design. What seems to dominate is a positivistic, scientific, tradition, placing emphasis on the production of technical, objective, knowledge and its applications. Here, a dominant focus is process-based techniques, and the evaluation of UD in relation to issues of technical feasibility and operational outcomes. There is less evidence of the deployment of alternative epistemological frameworks by proponents of UD, and limited engagement with moral and political philosophy, or substantive matters that relate to the interrelationships between design and people’s flourishing and suffering within the world. There is also vagueness, in some of the literature, about key terms underpinning UD, such as ‘universal’ and ‘universalism’, and seminar participants were keen to explore t...
The papers in this issue reflect participants disquiet with the theoretical and conceptual conten... more The papers in this issue reflect participants disquiet with the theoretical and conceptual content of universal design, and the epistemological and methodological bases shaping its understanding of disability and design. What seems to dominate is a positivistic, scientific, tradition, placing emphasis on the production of technical, objective, knowledge and its applications. Here, a dominant focus is process-based techniques, and the evaluation of UD in relation to issues of technical feasibility and operational outcomes. There is less evidence of the deployment of alternative epistemological frameworks by proponents of UD, and limited engagement with moral and political philosophy, or substantive matters that relate to the interrelationships between design and people’s flourishing and suffering within the world. There is also vagueness, in some of the literature, about key terms underpinning UD, such as ‘universal’ and ‘universalism’, and seminar participants were keen to explore the content of such foundational concepts, and their role in shaping UD discourse. The papers in the special issue outline the key issues and challenges relating to the development of UD discourse, and discuss how far it may be possible to realize its radical intent in seeking to overturn deep rooted designer conventions that rarely respond to the needs of disabled people and impaired bodies. They draw attention to the tensions between, on the one hand, the propagation of a UD discourse that is challenging of design approaches that fail to respond to corporeal diversity, and, on the other hand, the incorporation of much UD practice into conventional, conservative, design methodologies.
Este documento ofrece la primera historia de diseño inclusivo de Milton Keynes, examinando cómo ... more Este documento ofrece la primera historia de diseño inclusivo de Milton Keynes, examinando cómo se concibió la accesibilidad de la ciudad en el momento en que fue planificada y diseñada. A partir de testimonios de personas entrevistadas que recuerdan que se animó a las personas con discapacidad a vivir en Milton Keynes porque era accesible, se exploran los fundamentos de esta afirmación mediante recorridos, historias orales y pruebas documentales. El estudio revela que la “facilidad de movimiento y acceso” era uno de los objetivos de planificación de Milton Keynes y que la Open University era el lugar donde se desarrollaban los argumentos fundacionales que daban forma a la construcción social de la discapacidad. Resulta llamativo que el modelo social de la discapacidad y la injusticia de la inaccesibilidad salieran a la luz en una ciudad que fue diseñada para permitir la movilidad y la accesibilidad, aun cuando el Milton Keynes de los setenta se recuerde como un lugar que atraí...
The field of corporate real estate has been evolving since the the initial research undertaken in... more The field of corporate real estate has been evolving since the the initial research undertaken in the 1980s. Many of the studies undertaken to date are ‘snapshots’ in time: they capture practice at a single point and do not reflect the developing practice. Based on data collected over a 10 year period, this paper investigates both the focus of corporate real estate managers attention and how this may have changed over the period. It demonstrates that the key themes within corporate real estate policies, functions and activities are new working practices, outsourcing, techological infrastructure, and corporate real estate management and strategy. Over the period there has been an increase in teleworking polices, e-business and e-procurement all of which have implications for the way workspace is used and managed in the future. This establishes a base for further research.
At a point in time when technologies for remote and asynchronous forms of collaboration are perva... more At a point in time when technologies for remote and asynchronous forms of collaboration are pervasive, being able to justify the time, space and places for co-located working becomes increasingly important. This artiele provides an account of a way of working in a multidisciplinary design practice where the setting, the routine yet ordered practices, and a series of design meeting events were seen to feature in the organisation of the design work. In this account, the notion of the design meeting as an event category is questioned, as different forms of design meeting staged for different purposes were observed. In various ways the inter-disciplinary inputs to the design of a project were coordinated and this was seen to happen in a series of workplace interactions and practices that were part of the ecology of a multidisciplinary design organisation. Collectively, these situated observations support multidisciplinarity as a location-based way of working in a real-time synchronous manner
Current requirements engineering methods are heavily reliant on verbal techniques, which are inac... more Current requirements engineering methods are heavily reliant on verbal techniques, which are inaccessible to non-verbal users, such as mobility assistance dogs (MAD). Findings from a recent pilot study, conducted at a MAD training facility, show that the elicitation of canine stakeholder needs while in training is highly dependent on employee interpretation. This paper promotes the use of technology in support of meeting canine user needs, as suggested by the emerging field of Animal-Computer Interaction (ACI), by enabling trainers and employees to accurately elicit and interpret canine stakeholder requirements.
This short paper describes a collaborative and event-based installation at the Universal Design c... more This short paper describes a collaborative and event-based installation at the Universal Design conference 2014 and issues an invitation to participate. By creatively mapping the ties between people, groups, organisations and nations, the installation will illuminate the local and global networks through which Universal Design is shaped and transported. It forms part of an ongoing research project investigating the role and relevance of Universal Design around the world today.
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