Designing Learning Spaces for Diversity, Inclusion and Participation

This project aims to provide evidence-based guidance on how to design and/or modify mainstream schools to make it easier for students with disabilities to participate. It will inform architects, educators, and policy makers about disabled students' spatial requirements and develop strategies and tools to support the co-design of facilities with people with lived experience of disability. The outcomes will include an inclusive learning spaces design framework. This will ultimately benefit all students' access and meaningful involvement in learning through the development of more inclusive learning spaces. The research is significant because it integrates previously dissociated knowledge from architecture, education and health.

The project at the Abedian School of Architecture focus on creating, testing and developing a co-design platform for architects and designer.