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Intended to emphasize and maximize access to Deaf people's visual and tactile senses in design.
Design focused on creating ease for Deaf & signers' eyesight
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Design that allows signers to flow through the space while having a conversation.
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How Architecture Changes for the Deaf
Designed around Deaf people's signing space and to maintain clear visual communication
"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).
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Design that takes into consideration how a percentage of Deaf people use hearing aids & cochlear implants
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"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).