Designing for Disabled People: Exploring inclusive design in architectural education.

Architects usually design for normative bodies, thus shaping an exclusive environment for many users. This article explores the gap in architectural education that leads to a lack of knowledge in the architectural profession about the various accessibility needs of the wide spectrum of disabled people. It reports on a pilot study, involving architectural educators, to suggest a threshold of integrating a critical awareness of diverse accessibility needs. We found that adopting the social model of disability in the architecture design studio has the potential to serve as a threshold to reach a holistic inclusive design curriculum. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]