No. 28 (2024): Public works, common value
Research and Experimentation

Building inclusion: participation and circularity for accessible architectures in Palestine

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  • Alessio Battistella,
  • Timothy Daniel Brownlee,
  • Elisa Ferrato
Alessio Battistella
Dipartimento di Architettura e Studi Urbani, Politecnico di Milano
Timothy Daniel Brownlee
Scuola di Architettura e Design, Università di Camerino
Elisa Ferrato
School of Architecture, Oxford Brookes University
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/techne-15871

Published 2024-10-29

Keywords

  • Appropriate technologies,
  • Circular processes,
  • Inclusion,
  • Participation,
  • Palestine

How to Cite

Battistella, A., Brownlee, T. D., & Ferrato, E. (2024). Building inclusion: participation and circularity for accessible architectures in Palestine. TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, (28), 270–279. https://doi.org/10.36253/techne-15871

Copyright (c) 2024 Alessio Battistella, Timothy Daniel Brownlee, Elisa Ferrato

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Abstract

This paper describes the outcome of an international cooperation project aiming at contributing to the protection and the promotion of rights of people with disabilities and to their participation in increasingly inclusive and accessible communities. In Palestine, military occupation causes a lack of basic infrastructures, empty land and planning, de-facto making public areas rare. The opportunity to access an inclusive and safe space is a fundamental factor in quality of living. The participatory processes applied here to implement spatial transformation through sustainable micro-infrastructures foster awareness and knowledge sharing among the participants, despite the obstacles and limits acknowledged herein, opening to possible future developments.

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