The Inaccessible Nature of Accessible Nature - How the Concepts of Behavioural Settings and Affordances Can Support the Design Process of Physically and Socially Inclusive Natural Environments with a Potential Health- Promoting Effect for People with Mobility Disabilities
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The Inaccessible Nature of Accessible Nature - How the Concepts of Behavioural Settings and Affordances Can Support the Design Process of Physically and Socially Inclusive Natural Environments with a Potential Health- Promoting Effect for People with Mobility Disabilities. / Bekke-Hansen, Stine; Zhang, Gaochao; Corazon, Sus Sola; Stigsdotter, Ulrika.
Design for Inclusivity: Proceedings of the UIA World Congress of Architects Copenhagen 2023. red. / Magda Mostafa; Ruth Baumeister; Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen; Martin Tamke. Cham : Springer, 2023. s. 175-183 (Sustainable Development Goals Series).Publikation: Bidrag til bog/antologi/rapport › Konferencebidrag i proceedings › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - The Inaccessible Nature of Accessible Nature - How the Concepts of Behavioural Settings and Affordances Can Support the Design Process of Physically and Socially Inclusive Natural Environments with a Potential Health- Promoting Effect for People with Mobility Disabilities
AU - Bekke-Hansen, Stine
AU - Zhang, Gaochao
AU - Corazon, Sus Sola
AU - Stigsdotter, Ulrika
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Research has confirmed that natural environments can offer many health benefits. However, a large group in society, people with mobility disabilities, are often hindered from gaining these benefits. Enhancing physical accessibility to natural environments is important, but in our opinion, not enough. This position paper addresses the importance of incorporating social inclusiveness in accessibility solutions in natural environments. We present a framework based on theories on affordances and behaviour settings that can guide the design process of inclusive, accessible, natural, and health-promoting environments for people with mobility disabilities. The development of the framework is based on quantitative and qualitative results achieved from a several-year-long research project concerning the design and use of a forest trail for people with mobility disabilities. The framework allows for the integration of two key opposing factors: naturalness and accessibility. The framework also integrates the important and often overlooked factor of social inclusion when designing health-promoting natural environments. Landscape architects must understand their project sites as not only physical spaces, but also as social and emotional spaces. Implementing this framework can support our endeavours to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals and the Leave No One Behind agenda.
AB - Research has confirmed that natural environments can offer many health benefits. However, a large group in society, people with mobility disabilities, are often hindered from gaining these benefits. Enhancing physical accessibility to natural environments is important, but in our opinion, not enough. This position paper addresses the importance of incorporating social inclusiveness in accessibility solutions in natural environments. We present a framework based on theories on affordances and behaviour settings that can guide the design process of inclusive, accessible, natural, and health-promoting environments for people with mobility disabilities. The development of the framework is based on quantitative and qualitative results achieved from a several-year-long research project concerning the design and use of a forest trail for people with mobility disabilities. The framework allows for the integration of two key opposing factors: naturalness and accessibility. The framework also integrates the important and often overlooked factor of social inclusion when designing health-promoting natural environments. Landscape architects must understand their project sites as not only physical spaces, but also as social and emotional spaces. Implementing this framework can support our endeavours to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals and the Leave No One Behind agenda.
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-031-36302-3_13
DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-36302-3_13
M3 - Article in proceedings
SN - 978-3-031-36304-7
T3 - Sustainable Development Goals Series
SP - 175
EP - 183
BT - Design for Inclusivity
A2 - Mostafa, Magda
A2 - Baumeister, Ruth
A2 - Thomsen, Mette Ramsgaard
A2 - Tamke, Martin
PB - Springer
CY - Cham
T2 - UIA World Congress of Architects 2023
Y2 - 2 July 2023 through 6 July 2023
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ID: 372318731