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- Andersson, Jonas E, 1964-, et al.
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Equalization and Participation for All : Swedish Disability Policy at a Crossroads
- 2016. - 1
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Ingår i: Universal Design 2016. - : IOS Press. - 9781614996835 - 9781614996842
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The political line in Swedish disability policy advocates the use of generalized solutions in order to fit potential needs of the largest possible group of people and, where needed, special solutions to bridge the remaining gap between the generalized level of accessibility and additional individual needs. This is referred to as the disability perspective (DP). The DP has embraced two tracks: one that pertains to generalized solutions that promote an overall high level of accessibility and usability, and another one that pertains to different types of individual support for people with disabilities. The present study is a self-reflective inquiry on key issues for the development of future disability policies. Five experts entered a discussion about the pros and cons concerning the DP. This confirmed or refuted assumptions, dilemmas, themes as well as reoccurring patterns in the political viva voce procedure that has formed the contemporary disability policy. Over the course of time, the experts believed that the DP had nurtured a belief that there is a dichotomy. This may have created an imbalance in the relation between the DP and policies such as those concerning healthcare and social care. With a clearer focus on interdependence, the experts saw synergies between needs for assistive technology, assistive products and the requirements for the built environment.
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- Andersson, Jonas E, 1964-
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A universal space for ageing. : Demographic changes, eldercare and competitions in Denmark, Norway and Sweden.
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Ingår i: Architecture competitions and the production of culture, quality and knowledge. - Montréal : Potential Architecture Books. - 9780992131708 ; , s. 74-91
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In the context of an ageing world, theories on welfare regimes as well as their influence on architecture for ageing come of relevance. The key mechanism in these theories is the perceived level of decommodification in society, i.e. various financial measures that the individual subject initiates personally in order to prepare for different stages in his/ her life: bringing up children, education, health and sickness, professional career or retiring from professional life. One concrete measure is special accommodations for dependent and frail older people, here termed residential care homes (RCH). Decommodification is supposedly most developed in welfare regimes originating from social democratic values, similar to Nordic countries, like Denmark, Norway and Sweden. During the 20th century, these countries have used architectural competitions in order to harmonize socio-political ideals with the architectural realization of RCHs. The present study explores the organizational forms of 77 architectural competitions that were organized in these countries during the period 2000-2011. A sub-sample of 9 competition programmes, three from each country, were analyzed concerning the presence of welfare goals and other prerequisites for the design task in the programming brief. The sample was assembled through key word searches in open and restricted databases. Based on the full sample, restricted competitions appeared as the most used form for RCH competitions. The sub-sample suggested that language and ideological capital, originating from the realization of the Nordic welfare state, adds an additional restriction. Hence, the overall conclusion suggests that that existing socio-political ideals for architecture for the dependent and frail aging process tends to block the integration of international findings on universal space for ageing well.
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- Andersson, Jonas E, 1964-, et al.
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Accessibility in Public Buildings: : Efficiency of Checklist Protocols
- 2016. - 1
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Ingår i: Universal Design 2016. - : IOS Press. - 9781614996835 ; , s. 101-110
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In Sweden, governmental agencies and bodies are required to implement a higher level of accessibility in their buildings than that stipulated by the National Building and Planning Act (PBL). The Swedish Agency for Participation (MFD, Myndigheten för delaktighet) develops holistic guidelines in order to conceptualize this higher level of accessibility. In conjunction to these guidelines, various checklist protocols have been produced. The present study focuses on the efficiency of such checklist protocols. The study revolved around the use of a checklist protocol in assessments of two buildings in Stockholm: the new head office for the National Authority for Social Insurances (ASI) and the School of Architecture at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH). The study included three groups: Group 1 and Group 2 consisted of 50 real estate managers employed by the ASI, while Group 3 consisted of three participants in a course at the KTH. The results were similar in all of the groups. The use of the checklist protocol generated queries, which related mainly to two factors: (1) the accompanying factsheet consisted of textual explanations with no drawings, photographs or illustrations and (2) the order of the questions in the checklist protocol was difficult to correlate with the two buildings' spatial logic of accessing, egressing and making use of the built space.
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- Andersson, Jonas E, 1964-
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Accessible residential architecture of a resilient society in 2030 : detecting missing links between user needs and the built milieu
- 2024
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Ingår i: Malmö Real Estate Research Conference. - Malmö.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In September 2015, the member states of the United Nations unanimously adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The key concept of the seventeen development goals (SDG) is focused on balancing humanity’s consumption of earthly natural resources, however, three older concepts are integral components of this transition. In 2008, the UN Convention on equal rights for people with disabilities (UN CRPD) entered into force, ratified by eighty-two countries. This convention forwards three concepts for creating an inclusive society, i.e., accessibility, usability, and universal design thinking. Accessibility is primarily referring to physical measures that will make buildings and the built environment accessible to people with disabilities by removing built barriers. Usability highlights the need for aligning the conception of buildings and the built environment to actual users with their different abilities. Universal design refers to integrating considerations for a multitude of users with various abilities in the early conception of generating images for new architecture and built environment.Since 2010, the European Union has integrated the goals of both the UN CRPD and the Agenda 2030 in different policy programs. Addressing the issue of ageing and disabilities, the EU commission is preparing for a law on accessibility and usability requirements in transports and public buildings. The law is combined with a special European standard on requirements for adjusting existing or programming new types of built environment. It is the public environment that is in focus, however, built space for communal usages also comes of relevance, for instance elevators, stairwells and communal space for laundry, storage, and similar functions in residential architecture. The present study is focused on a research study that explored the contemporaneous meaning of the concepts of accessibility and usability. Some 125 expert respondents involved in national and international work of converting accessibility and usability requirements into were approached with a questionnaire on the matter. The response rate was 51 per cent, including both correctly filled out questionnaires and refraining answers that argued that the questionnaire should be sent to another group of respondents due to professional grounds.A sub-set of fifteen questions placed the concepts of accessibility and usability in three specific contexts: Firstly, relating the concepts to exemplary models of built space that fulfilled these requirements. Secondly, associating the concepts with latest information technologies as means for solving these requirements, and, thirdly, connecting residential architecture to two years of home confinement due to COVID restrictions. The respondents were found in seven European countries and two non-European countries. Disappointingly, the result indicated that the concepts had obtained a fixed meaning that prioritized a technical aspect rather than the essential outcome of an accessible and usable design. In addition, the few concrete examples of exemplary models were all found in the public environment. The study supplies a ground for formulating an overarching question – what does accessible residential architecture in the sustainable society look like?
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- Andersson, Jonas E, 1964-
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AESTHETICS AND ARCHITECTURE FOR THE DEPENDENT AGEING PROCESS: : SIX ARCHITECTURAL COMPETITIONS IN SWEDEN, 1907–2012
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Ingår i: AESTHETICS – THE UNEASY DIMENSION IN ARCHITECTURE. - Oslo : Nordic Academic Press of Architectural Research in cooperation with Faculty of Architecture and Fine Art, NTNU. - 9789198379709 ; , s. 109-130
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In Sweden, the search for an appropriate space for accommodating dependent older people can be associated with the construction of the development of the modern welfare society. Despite different political paradigms, the notion of a comfortable ageing process in a familiar home environment, complemented by individualized caregiving, has become the dominant idea for architecture for the frail ageing process. This study explores the evolution of this particular aesthetics by examining six architectural competitions that were organized during the period from 1907 to 2012. These competitions served as research material. The documentation of each of these competitions was subjected to a close-reading and drawing-analysis procedure. Being national, these competitions forged the positive connotations of the locus of home into aesthetical criteria for a normative homelikeness, which was implemented by the Swedish municipalities. In the course of time, homelikeness has changed from an emotional understanding into an approach for architectural critique. Based on the six competitions, this study postulates that the aesthetics of homelikeness involves the following aspects: 1) small-scale buildings with interior space that is designed for communal or individual usage; 2) small-scale buildings in a large-scale configuration with space for individual and communal use; 3) integration in and location to surrounding areas for residential use; 4) exploration of sensory aspects of the indoor and the outdoor environment that the architectural design created; and 5) architectural design promoting the individual process of appropriating it into becoming a locus of home.
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- Andersson, Jonas E, 1964-
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Appropriating space in an assisted living residence : On architecture and elderly frail people's spatial use
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Ingår i: Considering Research. - Southfield, MI : Lawrence Technological University. - 9781257321896 ; , s. 1-19
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- An assisted living residence with identical layout for two non-special care units (NSCU) and twospecial care units (SCU), designated as an exemplary model, was used as a test bed for this study on elderlypeople’s spatial appropriation of communal space. Using qualitative research methods (interviews,participatory observations, TESS-NH), eighteen residents’ spatial usages were mapped. Thereafter, tenresidents with dominantly somatic diseases were interviewed as to their appreciation and use of thecommunal space. Using the same qualitative interviewing guide, three staff members were interviewed inrelation to eight persons with dementia. The collected data was analyzed by use of the Lynchean imageabilitypentad. Depending on the residents’ age-related problem and the specific conditions in situ, the elderlypersons’ spatial usages of the individual unit could be described graphically in a mental map. A place-makingprocess was the motivating force behind this spatial appropriation, conditioned by age-related problems. Atthe NSCUs, the elderly spurred this process themselves by developing a pattern consisting of movementstowards places open for activities, contact and social interaction. On the other hand, at the SCUs, thedementia diagnosis affected this pattern. At these units, the movements and the places depended upon theelderly person’s dependency on the staff for self-affirmation and calm. The overarching conclusion of thisstudy is that an appropriate architectural space for an assisted living residence reinforces the place-makingprocess, either the one of the elderly frail people, or the one staged by the staff. Besides generalrequirements of accessibility, functionality, and usability, this type of architecture needs to employ spatialelements that constitute a communal space that fosters an appropriative process based on the sensuousstimulation exploitable at a particular place. Thus, architecture acquires a supportive quality that nourishesthe perceived homeliness by the elderly people themselves, or as staged by the staff.
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- Andersson, Jonas E, 1964-
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Architectural Competitions on Aging in Denmark : Spatial Prototypes to Achieve Homelikeness 1899–2012
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Ingår i: Architecture. - Basel : MDPI. - 2673-8945. ; 3:1, s. 73-91
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In Denmark, appropriate architecture for aging is an engaging topic, often explored through the use of architectural competitions. Since 2013, national guidelines for homelike architecture for eldercare have been in place, open for use in contemporaneous competitions. This study is focused on architectural competitions prior to 2013 and the development of modern architecture for aging. Based on reports on competitions in professional publications for architects, this study covers the period of 1899–2012. Inspired by the French philosopher Paul Ricoeur’s view of architecture as a spatial practice that ‘does not invoke what no longer is there but what has become through what is no longer present’, the present study revisits competitions on architecture for aging in search of inspirational input and links to the national socio-political discussion. This study uses case study methodology with a mixed method approach. A total of 76 competitions are identified, mainly organized by Danish municipalities, and are linked to four paradigms in social legislations. It is concluded that early competitions defined spatial prototypes, both for the homelike setting and the institutional environment, which have been continuously revisited. Since 2008, homelikeness has become the main design criterion for architecture for the frail aging population with an increasing dependency on caregiving.
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- Andersson, Jonas E, 1964-
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Architecture and Ageing : On the Interaction between Frail Older People and the Built Environment
- 2011
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This doctoral thesis deals with the type of architecture that materializes when age-related problems become a long-term condition (LTC) and gradually restrain the individual’s ability to perform activities in daily life (ADL). Their life situation necessitates a support from relatives or municipal eldercare staff in order for them to continue to participate in everyday living. In addition, the architectural space requires a close adjustment to the personal panorama of cognitive or functional impairments. The habitat can be a flat appropriated many years previously or in a residential care home for dependent and frail seniors. Architecture for ageing with dependency demonstrates how space can be used either to affirm or oppress the older person’s attempts to maintain an independent life style. By use of design theory, case study methodology and a heterogeneous research strategy, this study uses a threefold approach—a retrospective, a contemporaneous, and a future-oriented approach—to explore frail older people’s interaction with the architectural space of residential care homes. This has resulted in seven papers that focus on aspects of these human interactions with the built environment. Based on twelve exemplary models, the research paper I concludes that national guidelines result in a homelike, a hotel-like or a hospital-like environment. Research paper II is a retrospective study that examines the use of architecture competitions as a socio-political instrument to define architectural guidelines. Research paper III focuses on dependent seniors’ spatial appropriation of the communally shared space of a ward in a residential care home. Research paper IV employs two environmental assessment methods from the architecture profession and gerontological research (TESS-NH) in order to evaluate the use of interior colouring when refurbishing two residential care homes while the residents remained in place. Research paper V displays a municipal organizer’s considerations to opt for an architecture competition as a means of renewing architecture for the ageing population. Research paper VI examines competition documentation of three municipal architecture competitions organized during the period of 2006 to 2009. Research paper VII, the final study, explores notions concerning the appropriate space for ageing found among a group of municipal representatives, and people from organizations defending older people’s right. It supplies a model for understanding the appropriate space for ageing. This study illustrates the absence of older people with frailties in the public discussion about appropriate architecture for ageing. During the 20th century, the multi-dimensional idea of an architectural space with a homelike appearance has been used to contrast the negatively charged opposite—the complete and austere institution. The overarching conclusion of this study is that architecture for dependent and frail seniors constitutes a particular type of built space that requires an extended dialogue involving dependent seniors, architects, building contractors and care planners in order to conceive appropriate architecture for the ageing society.
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