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Дизайн за всички или персонализиран дизайн – предизвикателства при проектирането на достъпна градска среда
Design for All or Personalised Design: Challenges to the Designing of an Accessible Urban Environment

Author(s): Silvia Sulkova
Subject(s): Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Architecture, Visual Arts
Published by: Институт за изследване на изкуствата, Българска академия на науките

Summary/Abstract: Urban environment is complex and multifunctional as are people and activities it serves to. Unlike manufacturing or housing environment, urban environment is used by all regardless of their sex, age, ethnic or social status, behavioural specificity, capabilities or limitations. Diversity provides a good scope of work though facing a serious challenge to designers to combine the unique with the unified, consumer’s individuality with social necessity. The idea of an ‘universal solution’ has been gaining popularity for two decades now, i.e. if a product suits for someone with dexterity or mental impairments, then it is suits for those without disabilities. At the same time a number of same-function products are offered on the market, the personalisation or orientation towards a certain consumer group of which makes them more preferable as they would bear a message of the identity of their owners. The balance between these two trends shapes the unique appearance of social space.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 9
  • Page Range: 424-430
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Bulgarian