Format:
1 online resource (176 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9783034609661
Note:
Intro -- My Five Hypotheses -- UNIVERSAL DESIGN MEANS DESIGN FOR EVERYONE -- Youth Commodities and Elderly Products -- Arriving at the "Quality of Life" - Terminology -- Anything but old - a User's Perspective -- The Small Universe - An observation of Universal Design classics by Gerrit Terstiege -- On Using the Users' Perspective -- Age as an Economic Factor or: comfort for Everyone -- Gold Rush Mood in the Japanese silver Market -- The Fluke: the Porsche cayenne - comfort for All -- Many Small Steps/Interview with Mathias Knigge -- Universal design in practice: geared to age from head to foot -- Seventy overnight: shopping in an Age simulation suit -- An Eye for an Eye, an Ear for an Ear -- Smart Home - Intelligence in Objects -- Eye -- New User Interfaces, New Interactive Systems -- Orientation Systems - Disorientation Systems: Written Typeface and Symbols in the Age of Universal Use -- Helpful Signs -- Losing the Way in the Forest of Signs -- The Future will be a challenge/Interview with Ursula Wangler und Frank Abele -- Ear -- Modern crossover: Glasses that Hear -- Size Alone Does Not Matter: Mobile Phones on the Road to Becoming an Ergonomic Product -- Removing Barriers, challenging Users/ Interview with Konstantin Grcic -- Hand -- It's All in the Packaging -- Everything in One: Rolling, Grasping, Pushing -- Nothing Will Burn Here -- Foot -- Doors suddenly open -- Walk Well -- Mobility Despite Age -- All on Board! -- The speedy Wheelchair -- Comfortable and Mobile in Age/ Interview with Peter Naumann -- How Should We Design a Home? -- Barrier-free Building as the Task of the Future -- Giving Wings to Restrictions/Interview with Christine Degenhart -- Converting Asserts - Integrated Housing in Regensburg -- Comfortable and Active: Adult Care Facility in Domat/Ems by Dietrich Schwarz
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Building for the Elderly is Building for Everyone: Residential Complexes by Baumschlager Eberle Architects -- Standards Do Not Solve Problems/ Interview with Carlo Baumschlager -- Multigenerational Living: Social Change as Catalyst for New Design Solutions -- THE FUTURE WILL BE EASY AND COMFORTABLE -- Appendix -- The Principles of Universal Design -- Abbreviations -- Bibliography -- Photo credits
Additional Edition:
Print version Herwig, Oliver Universal Design Basel/Berlin/Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH,c2008 ISBN 9783764387181
Language:
English
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