Expanding the definition of universal design in a post-COVID world

2020-06-19T17:34:00-04:00

Rather than respond with temporary barriers or signs, [Joel] Sanders is trying to use MIX’s research process to arrive at designs that minimize the spread of the coronavirus and appeal to diverse users. This, he hopes, will result in buildings that endure, whether or not a vaccine becomes available.

Writing in The New York Times Magazine, journalist Kim Tingley takes a long look at the ways in which the design of everyday and communal spaces might shift to become more universally accessible following the COVID-19 pandemic.

The article engages with emerging design ideas resulting from new social distancing guidelines and includes perspectives from Joel Sanders of Joel Sanders Architect, Vishaan Chakrabarti of PAU, Mabel O. Wilson of Columbia University, Rosalie Genevro of the Architectural League of New York, and Deborah Berke of Yale University, among others.

A Digitally Inspired Veil, Intended to Save Lives, Appears at N.Y.U. Library

2012-08-20T17:06:00-04:00

Among facets that critics may seize upon — and, this being N.Y.U., there will certainly be critics — is that the screens express technology’s new primacy, all but obscuring traditional forms of scholarship behind a cascade of random data. Critics may also discern a feeling of defeat in having to undertake such a fundamental alteration in the hope of saving students’ lives.

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Expanding the definition of universal design in a post-COVID world

A Digitally Inspired Veil, Intended to Save Lives, Appears at N.Y.U. Library