Call 1 - Universally designed built environments at the urban scale (UD-BUS network)
Posted September 14th, 2009 by admin
Project leader:
Professor Mark Dyer, TrinityHaus, Trinity College DublinKeywords:
Urban environment, older people’s quality of life, user engagement, design practice Budget:
€13,584.36 Project members/ institutions:
Professor Mark Dyer and Dr Antoinette Fennell, TrinityHaus, Trinity College Dublin; Dr Yasemin Afacan, School of Planning, Architecture and Civil Engineering, Queen's University Belfast; Professor Ruth Morrow, PLACE, the Architecture and Built Environment Centre for Northern Ireland; and Dr Gerald Craddock, National Disability Authority
This network plans to build a large partnership that will study how the urban environment, in planning, design, architecture and engineering, can be accessed and used to the greatest possible extent by people of all ages.
Objective:
To establish a multidisciplinary network and explore how to effectively implement research findings from stakeholder consultation into design practice.
Duration:
12 months for CARDI contribution
