Cursos / 1º Ciclo / Faculty of Architecture and Arts :: Architecture ( Integrated Master)

DESIGN INCLUSIVO - 2016/2017

3º curricular year
Semestralidade: 1st semester
ECTS: 2

Teachers

Leading Teacher: Prof. Doutora Cláudia Lima
Assistant Professor: Prof. Doutora Cláudia Lima

Class type and School hours

Teórico-prática : 2 Horas

Teaching Language

Portuguese

Main Aims/Objectives

Sensitize students to the design of products, services and environments suitable for human diversity, including children, older adults, disabled, sick or placed at a disadvantage by circumstances users.

Most of the barriers that limit the full exercise of active citizenship are designed and built by men.

In this sense, it is necessary to create a new approach that addresses this social dimension of project practice.

Specific Aims/Objectives

In contemporary society, there are many senior citizens who live in environments overcrowded, unsafe and polluted that, by their nature, offer little opportunity for learning games and leisure.

Therefore, the following specific objectives of this C.U. are the awareness of the various actors in the creation and management of public spaces for the issue of physical accessibility and the full enjoyment of equipment for all population.

Skills to be acquired

To understand that designing for senior citizens provides a unique opportunity to deal with users with very specific characteristics, and is also a synonymous with increased responsibility for intervening in the process.

This follows the fact that we are facing an undoubted opportunity to project foreseeing long-term results, to enrich senior citizens experiences, building effectively increased sensitivity of the future adult to issues of inclusiveness.

Teaching Procedures

1. Lectures for the presentation and decoding of the syllabus;
2.Theoretical framework for the practical exercises;
3. Practical lessons for follow-up rating of the students, held around the practical exercises

Programme

INCLUSIVE DESIGN AND SOCIAL INCLUSION IN PUBLIC SPACES

LITERATURE REVIEW, THE GOOD PRACTICES
Equipment that exclude;
Equipment and inclusive attitudes;
Workshops;
Good practices - conclusions.

OBJECT
Participatory methodologies;
Case studies;
Suggested project.

Evaluation Type

The evaluation is performed according to:
- General Regulations Assessment of Knowledge and Skills Universities
Lusiada;
- Specific Rules Assessment Course.

Teaching Resources

1.Presentation of studies and projects, informed with real and virtual models;
2.Open classes including all years of the course that allow the exchange of different experiences
and skills;
3.Display of culturally important films related to the projects;
4. Study visits.

Sustainability Objectives

Keywords

Inclusiveness.
Participation.
Social responsibility.

Main Bibliography

Complementary Bibliography