Jos (Northumbria University, UK) Boys 
Doing Disability Differently [PDF ebook] 
An alternative handbook on architecture, dis/ability and designing for everyday life

This ground-breaking book aims to take a new and innovative view on how disability and architecture might be connected. Rather than putting disability at the end of the design process, centred mainly on compliance, it sees disability – and ability – as creative starting points for the whole design process. It asks the intriguing question: can working from dis/ability actually generate an alternative kind of architectural avant-garde?

To do this, Doing Disability Differently:

• explores how thinking about dis/ability opens up to critical and creative investigation our everyday social attitudes and practices about people, objects and space


• argues that design can help resist and transform underlying and unnoticed inequalities


• introduces architects to the emerging and important field of disability studies 　and considers what different kinds of design thinking and doing this can enable


• asks how designing for everyday life – in all its diversity – can 　be better embedded within contemporary architecture as a discipline


• offers examples of what doing disability differently can mean for architectural theory, education and professional practice


• aims to embed into architectural practice, attitudes and approaches that creatively and constructively refuse to perpetuate body  »norms » or the resulting inequalities in access to, and support from, built space.

Ultimately, this book suggests that re-addressing architecture and disability involves nothing less than re-thinking how to design for the everyday occupation of space more generally.