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UNIVERSALIST DESIGN
Designing accessibility for the many ways of existing in the world
Universalist, or anti-ableist, design starts from the premise that there is no such thing as a normal human body or mind. The designed, planned, and built environment is the result of asymmetrical power dynamics that decide how society is organized. Learning from critical disability theory, universalist design studies social norms that define particular attributes such as impairments and focuses on the social conditions that concentrate stigmatized attributes in particular human populations and therefore removes them from discussions about the built environment. This type of design refers to a diverse set of approaches, strategies, and tools employed to ...
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