Designing Mind-Friendly Environments

Architecture and Design for Everyone

JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERSISBN: 9781785921421

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By Steve Maslin, Foreword by Zoe Mailloux
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272

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Acknowledgements Foreword Introduction Section A: Connecting Different "Worlds" 1. Definitions and Voice 2. Learning from People on the Autism Spectrum (and other neurological experiences) 3. Learning from OT, Psychology, UX, and Inclusive Design 4. Design as Social Prescribing 5. Prescription to Commissioning 6. For Whom or With Whom? Section B: The Human Experience. 7. Diversity 8. Stress 9. Sensory Processing 10. Emotion, Meaning and Metaphor 11. Reasoning, Learning and Understanding. 12. Rest and Sleep Section C: Contextual Experience 13. Mind and Body in Context 14. Spatial Context 15. Social Context 16. Comfort and Activity 17. Acoustics 18. Lighting 19. Surfaces 20. Tastes, Smells and Air Quality 21. Temperature 22. The Natural World 23. Time and Memory 24. Navigation, place and wayfinding 25. Spatial Choice, Permission and Security 26. Communication Section D: Different Environments 27. Landscape and Urban 28. Transport 29. Education 30. Health and Social care 31. Workplaces 32. Places of Worship 33. Communal 34. Civic and Cultural 35. Leisure and Sports 36. Food and Drink 37. Retail 38. Hospitality 39. Industrial and Military 40. Judicial and Custodial 41. Domestic Section E: Getting Serious 42. Facilities management 43. Safeguarding of Wellbeing 44. Fire and Emergencies Summary Biography of Author Table of Figures Bibliography
Steve Maslin, Dip Arch, RIBA, FSI, NRAC has been a Chartered Architect since 1992 and NRAC registered Access Consultant since 2003. He leads on Inclusive Design consultancy within the company for whom he works providing design advice around people's needs. He is a Senior Fellow at the Schumacher Institute for Sustainable Systems, a committee member of the British Standards Institute, a public speaker, and has served as an Expert for the Design Council and the Building Research Establishment.

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