Existential Design Applied in Universal Design Settings
Torkildsby, A.B.
Studies in Health Technology and Informatics 229: 40-42
2016
ISSN/ISBN: 1879-8365 PMID: 27534284 Document Number: 689797
The critical design method aims to discuss ways of opening up the (design) brief when planning, designing, building, operating and maintaining the future of the built environment - public as well as private, indoor as well as outdoor. Focusing on "designials" (fundamental forms of design being), the methodology intends to illustrate the fact that objects; including buildings, parks, transportation systems, etc. may directly encroach upon certain "existentials" (fundamental forms of human being) - thus shed light on how a design process is normally conducted, and furthermore, how that affects people's existential well-being.