Accessing architecture: Career exploration opportunities for aspiring designers with vision impairment

IF 3.2 1区工程技术 Q2 ENGINEERING, MANUFACTURING

Design Studies Pub Date : 2025-06-17 DOI:10.1016/j.destud.2025.101317

Andrew Gipe-Lazarou

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Abstract

To comprehensively address the built environment, the discipline of architecture must account for the full spectrum of bodily experiences which defines our collective experience of space. In the United States, more than 25 % of this collective experience belongs to individuals with disability, and yet, of the twenty-two major occupation groups surveyed by the CDC between 2016 and 2022, architecture and engineering had the lowest rate of disability representation at 8 %. The objective of this research was to conduct a critical survey of career exploration experiences for aspiring professionals with vision impairment interested in pursuing a degree in architecture, with the broader aim of improving the accessibility of architectural learning and practice for individuals with disability.

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访问建筑：有抱负的视觉障碍设计师的职业探索机会

为了全面解决建筑环境问题，建筑学科必须考虑到定义我们对空间的集体体验的全方位身体体验。在美国，超过25%的集体经历属于残疾人，然而，在疾病预防控制中心2016年至2022年调查的22个主要职业群体中，建筑和工程的残疾人代表率最低，为8%。本研究的目的是对有抱负的视觉障碍专业人士进行职业探索经历的批判性调查，这些专业人士对攻读建筑学学位感兴趣，其更广泛的目标是提高残疾人建筑学习和实践的可及性。

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Design Studies 工程技术-工程：制造

CiteScore

8.60

自引率

20.00%

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审稿时长

40 days

期刊介绍： Design Studies is a leading international academic journal focused on developing understanding of design processes. It studies design activity across all domains of application, including engineering and product design, architectural and urban design, computer artefacts and systems design. It therefore provides an interdisciplinary forum for the analysis, development and discussion of fundamental aspects of design activity, from cognition and methodology to values and philosophy. Design Studies publishes work that is concerned with the process of designing, and is relevant to a broad audience of researchers, teachers and practitioners. We welcome original, scientific and scholarly research papers reporting studies concerned with the process of designing in all its many fields, or furthering the development and application of new knowledge relating to design process. Papers should be written to be intelligible and pertinent to a wide range of readership across different design domains. To be relevant for this journal, a paper has to offer something that gives new insight into or knowledge about the design process, or assists new development of the processes of designing.