Tag: Inclusivity

Free Download Improving Inclusivity in Higher Education: Addressing the Digital Divide in the COVID Pandemic by Bhakti More, Seena Biju, Vinod Pallath
English | EPUB (True) | 2023 | 241 Pages | ISBN : 9819950759 | 15.9 MB
This book addresses issues of access that COVID-19 brought forth in higher education, with a primary focus on Asian countries. In looking to address SDG4 to promote "inclusive and equitable quality education for all", the volume explores the challenges relating to educational exclusion by considering how specially-abled students have been impacted by the digital divide in the context of the pandemic. It puts a spotlight on the approaches, experiences, and case analyses from various geographies in the region to study transitions in inclusivity.

Free Download Design for Inclusivity: Proceedings of the UIA World Congress of Architects Copenhagen 2023
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031363019 | 799 Pages | PDF (True) | 49 MB
The book provides new perspectives from leading experts examining the role of architects and urbanists in designing for inclusivity in our built environment. By focusing on themes of gender, race and ethnicity, ability, neurodiversity, age, poverty and socio-economy and the non-human, the book tackles the complex challenges that designers and scholars encounter and need to address in their works. The volume offers a diverse compilation of peer-reviewed papers related to architecture for inclusivity in various different formats, ranging from visual essays, argumentative papers and scholastic texts. It presents the notion of "availability", a concept which works to challenge the "othering" inherent in notions of inclusion and accessibility. In its introduction it presents a critical discourse around the challenges and potentials lying in the design for availability targeted towards a systemic change of our societies.

Free Download Design for Inclusivity: Proceedings of the UIA World Congress of Architects Copenhagen 2023 by Magda Mostafa, Ruth Baumeister, Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen, Martin Tamke
English | EPUB (True) | 2023 | 799 Pages | ISBN : 3031363019 | 435.9 MB
The book provides new perspectives from leading experts examining the role of architects and urbanists in designing for inclusivity in our built environment. By focusing on themes of gender, race and ethnicity, ability, neurodiversity, age, poverty and socio-economy and the non-human, the book tackles the complex challenges that designers and scholars encounter and need to address in their works. The volume offers a diverse compilation of peer-reviewed papers related to architecture for inclusivity in various different formats, ranging from visual essays, argumentative papers and scholastic texts. It presents the notion of "availability", a concept which works to challenge the "othering" inherent in notions of inclusion and accessibility. In its introduction it presents a critical discourse around the challenges and potentials lying in the design for availability targeted towards a systemic change of our societies.