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Sensory Reach

Intended to emphasize and maximize access to Deaf people's visual and tactile senses in design.

  • Glass elevators
  • Glass doors/walls
  • Use of mirrors

Light and Color

The Principles

of Deaf Space

Design focused on creating ease for Deaf & signers' eyesight

Such examples are:

  • Using soft, diffused lighting
  • Painting walls in soft colors that contrast with skin tone
  • Incorporating natural light but avoiding glare
  • Sensory Reach
  • Space and Proximity
  • Mobility and Proximity
  • Light and Colour
  • Acoustics

Space and Proximity

A Brief History

of Deaf Space

Design that allows signers to flow through the space while having a conversation.

Such examples are:

  • No poles or barriers in hallways
  • Sliding doors
  • Ramps

Space and Proximity

Reviewing Deaf Gain

How Architecture Changes for the Deaf

Designed around Deaf people's signing space and to maintain clear visual communication

  • Wider hallways
  • Round Tables
  • Square classrooms
  • Olof Hansen, the first American Deaf Architect in 1894
  • Emphasized openness and natural light in his designs
  • Hansen Bauman, founded the DeafSpace project in 2005
  • Worked with ASL/Deaf Studies department at Gallaudet and catalogued over 150 architectural principles based on Deaf ways of interacting

"We have thus coined the term 'Deaf Gain' in opposition to “hearing loss” in order to encompass the myraid ways in which both deaf people and society at large have benefited from the existence of deaf people and sign language throughout recorded human history" (Bauman & Murray, 2014).

Universal Design

Acoustics

  • Using design to achieve inclusion
  • To come up with creative solutions for accessibility
  • Applies to product design and architecture
  • Often benefits able-bodied people as well
  • Ex: Automatic sliding doors

Design that takes into consideration how a percentage of Deaf people use hearing aids & cochlear implants

Such examples are:

  • Carpented/softer surfaces
  • Reducing echo & background noise

Deaf Space

"Deaf people inhabit a rich sensory world where vision and touch are a primary means of spatial awareness and orientation. [...] Our built environment, largely constructed by and for hearing individuals, presents a variety of surprising challenges to which deaf people have responded with a particular way of altering their surroundings to fit their unique ways-of-being. This approach is often referred to as DeafSpace" (Gallaudet University, 2020).

Deaf Space

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