TY - JOUR
T1 - A study to depict challenges and opportunities building industry professionals face when designing inclusive and accessible buildings
AU - Zallio, Matteo
AU - Clarkson, P. John
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Inclusive Design has been widely promoted in the fields of product, engineering, and user experience design. Despite the educational efforts made by scientists, practitioners, and institutions to raise awareness about accessibility and inclusion, Inclusive Design has not been widely embraced in architectural design practice, where it is often associated with design for disability. This multidisciplinary study, spanning behavioural science, ergonomics, and the social sciences of architecture, explores the challenges architectural design practitioners face when designing inclusively, and identifies opportunities to promote the adoption of Inclusive Design. The results of a questionnaire completed by 114 architectural design practitioners underscore the lack of client awareness of the benefits of inclusive design, highlight the important role practitioners can play in advocating for Inclusive Design, and emphasize the need to develop practices and tools that enhance the design and post-design phases of buildings to ensure inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility.
AB - Inclusive Design has been widely promoted in the fields of product, engineering, and user experience design. Despite the educational efforts made by scientists, practitioners, and institutions to raise awareness about accessibility and inclusion, Inclusive Design has not been widely embraced in architectural design practice, where it is often associated with design for disability. This multidisciplinary study, spanning behavioural science, ergonomics, and the social sciences of architecture, explores the challenges architectural design practitioners face when designing inclusively, and identifies opportunities to promote the adoption of Inclusive Design. The results of a questionnaire completed by 114 architectural design practitioners underscore the lack of client awareness of the benefits of inclusive design, highlight the important role practitioners can play in advocating for Inclusive Design, and emphasize the need to develop practices and tools that enhance the design and post-design phases of buildings to ensure inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility.
KW - accessibility
KW - architectural design
KW - diversity
KW - equity
KW - Inclusive design
KW - toolkit
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85175652748&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/00038628.2023.2270983
DO - 10.1080/00038628.2023.2270983
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85175652748
SN - 0003-8628
VL - 67
SP - 268
EP - 279
JO - Architectural Science Review
JF - Architectural Science Review
IS - 3
ER -