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Inclusive Design for Getting Outdoors Lynne Mitchell EPSRC EQUAL Research Network Workshop Cardiff University, 5 th July 2004. OPENspace. Research centre for inclusive access to outdoor environments Edinburgh College of Art and Heriot-Watt University I’DGO team - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Inclusive Design for Getting Outdoors
Lynne MitchellEPSRC EQUAL Research Network Workshop
Cardiff University, 5th July 2004
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Inclusive Design for Getting Outdoors
OPENspace
• Research centre for inclusive access to outdoor environments
• Edinburgh College of Art and Heriot-Watt University
• I’DGO team – Prof. Catharine Ward Thompson– Prof. Peter Aspinall– Dr Takemi Sugiyama
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Inclusive Design for Getting Outdoors
OPENspace
• Three broad areas of work– disability and social inclusion
– health and restorative environments
– tourism
• Brings together leading researchers in landscape architecture, environmental psychology, quality of life measures, visual impairment and inclusive design
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Inclusive Design for Getting Outdoors
OISD:WISE
• Wellbeing in Sustainable Environments Research Unit
• Oxford Institute for Sustainable Development, Oxford Brooke University
• I’DGO team– Dr Elizabeth Burton– Lynne Mitchell
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Inclusive Design for Getting Outdoors
OISD:WISE
• Promotes social sustainability in the built environment (at all scales from buildings to whole cities)
• Focuses on wellbeing, mental health and quality of life (QoL)
• Offers cross-disciplinary working, generation of practical guidance, wide dissemination to professional and user groups
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Inclusive Design for Getting Outdoors
SURFACE
• Salford University Research Focus on Accessible Environments
• University of Salford
• I’DGO team– Rita Newton– Marcus Ormerod– Vanja Garaj
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Inclusive Design for Getting Outdoors
SURFACE
• Research, consultancy and master’s level teaching
• Focus on designing effective indoor and outdoor environments suitable for everyone to use
• Emancipatory Research Approach
• Putting theory into practice
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Inclusive Design for Getting Outdoors
• Dementia Voice– Jane Gilliard– innovative information, training, research
and development work for people with dementia
• Housing Corporation– Steve Ongeri– expertise in housing for older people,
dissemination of research findings
Consortium partners
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Inclusive Design for Getting Outdoors
Consortium partners• RICAbility
– Research Institute for Consumer Affairs– Lindsey Etchell– expertise in research and dissemination
work for older people
• Sensory Trust– Jane Stoneham– accessible and inclusive environmental
design, therapeutic environments and outdoor experience
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Inclusive Design for Getting Outdoors
• Office of the Deputy Prime Minister - Peter Bide
• Aberdeen City Council - David Kilgour• UK Institute for Inclusive Design - Andrew
Walker• Cherwell District Council - John Gregory
and Jeremy Sacha• Edinburgh City Council - Carmen Duncan• JMU Access Partnership - Carol Thomas
Consortium collaborators
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Inclusive Design for Getting Outdoors
Consortium collaborators• Manchester Disabled People’s Access
Group - Felicity Harris• Merseytravel - David Skelton• Page and Park Architects - David Page• Respect for People - Nick Curry, Tim
Embley and Adrian Terry• Southern Derbyshire NHS Trust -
Peggy Frost• Wales Tourist Board - Chris Coleman
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Inclusive Design for Getting Outdoors
• To identify the most effective ways of ensuring that the outdoor environment is designed inclusively to improve the quality of life for older and disabled people
Research aim
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Inclusive Design for Getting Outdoors
Research objectives• To establish QoL criteria for older people
in terms of the outdoor environment • To investigate how different outdoor
environments perform in relation to these QoL criteria
• To identify positive and negative features of outdoor environments
• To provide guidance for developers, designers and user groups
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Inclusive Design for Getting Outdoors
• The relationship between older people and their environment is increasingly recognised as important for quality of life
• Very little research has addressed this relationship
• Designers, planners and developers lack information on how to ensure outdoor environments are easy for older people to use and enjoy
Research challenge
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Inclusive Design for Getting Outdoors
Theoretical context
• People's engagement with place– physical qualities of place– activities and behaviours– perceptions and beliefs
• People have
– goals, e.g. social, daily living, recreational– objectives, e.g. shopping, meeting friends – tasks that enable these, e.g. crossing the
road
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Inclusive Design for Getting Outdoors
Theoretical context
• What people are prepared to attempt relates to– expectations– difficulty– confidence– importance
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Inclusive Design for Getting Outdoors
• Outdoor environments that support older people‘s outdoor activities are likely to have positive effects on QoL– physiological benefits: general health, physic
al exercise, improved sleep– psychological benefits: relaxation, reduced s
tress/depression– social benefits: better social integration, acc
ess to services, informal opportunities to socialise
Benefits of outdoor activities
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Inclusive Design for Getting Outdoors
• Landscape– open space networks– parks– woodland– green spaces– gardens– allotments– street trees– planted areas
Research focus: OPENspace
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Inclusive Design for Getting Outdoors
Research focus: OISD:WISE• Urban form
– location– density– mix of land uses– street hierarchy– street layouts– street activity– road junctions– built form
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Inclusive Design for Getting Outdoors
Research focus: SURFACE
• Detailed design– general street image– street furniture– pedestrian crossings– signage– footways– paving– level changes
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Inclusive Design for Getting Outdoors
Methodology
• Focus groups and semi-structured interviews with older people
• Workshops with older people, designers and providers
• Interviews with older people
• On-site analysis of neighbourhood urban form and detail
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Inclusive Design for Getting Outdoors
Methodology
• On-site behaviour-setting surveys• Questionnaire survey of designers and
providers
• Analysis and comparison of good practice
• Development of guidance documents
• Dissemination
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Inclusive Design for Getting Outdoors
• Workshops at key stages, seminars and conferences towards end
• Website, discussion list and newsletters• Partner and collaborator input• Publications for planners, designers and
providers• Publications for lay people and end-users• Academic and professional journal
publications/presentations
Dissemination tools
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Inclusive Design for Getting Outdoors
• QoL criteria for older people in relation to outdoor environments.
• Tools for measuring outdoor environments in relation to their use
• Identification of features that help or hinder older people in using and enjoying the outdoor environment
• Information/guidance for developers, designers and planners and for lay people
Key outputs
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Inclusive Design for Getting Outdoors
• User involvement from the beginning
• Partners’/collaborators’ networks and forums
• Ongoing discussion/feedback
• Networks to maximise continuous dissemination
• Targeted outputs
Dissemination strategy
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Inclusive Design for Getting Outdoors
Who will benefit?• All users of the outdoor environment• Organisations and groups representing
the interests of older people and disabled people
• Planners, designers, managers, developers and landowners
• Community and residents’ associations• Academics and other researchers
studying built and natural environments