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How can experimenting with form create inclusivity?

29 students have designed and built four pavilions in close dialogue with young people with cognitive or physical disabilities from ‘Sammenslutning af Unge med Handicap’.

The intention was to stimulate discussion regarding architecture’s experiential potential irrespective of physical or mental ability. They explored the phenomenological capacity of architecture, creating pavilions focusing on sensory experience; sound, sight, smell and the haptic sense of touch. Instead of limiting themselves to the standardized metric-based approach defined by modernism and utilised in building regulation standards, they reappraised this norm focusing on a more diverse body type and ability model. The pavilions were created for the exhibition ‘H22 City Expo — The making of a smarter city’ in Sweden.