Missing Voices of Disabled People: uservoices.dk

This project connects accessibility requirements in the Danish Building Regulations (BR18) with statements posted by disabled people on various web-based platforms. The aim is to bring the lived experience of disabled people into a vocabulary of space-making for architects.
By elevating the missing voices of disabled people – describing what matters, how and why – the project supports the decision-making processes of architects to make the built environment more inclusive.
We have developed a graph database in which statements posted by disabled people in virtual space, and paragraph sentences of BR18, are related through specific architectural features of room, element and object.
Using the architectural features as point of reference, the website not only highlights some of the most common building situations encountered by disabled people, but also allows anyone interested to explore their relationship to the real lives of disabled users and the statutory requirements.