{"id":975,"date":"2020-09-12T21:06:51","date_gmt":"2020-09-12T21:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/masterofarchitecture\/?p=975"},"modified":"2026-03-12T11:39:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T11:39:56","slug":"prof-marc-dujardin-on-universal-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/masterofarchitecture\/2020\/09\/12\/prof-marc-dujardin-on-universal-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Marc Dujardin on Universal Design"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"header_category_container\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"content\">\n<div class=\"single_left\">\n<h1><\/h1>\n<div id=\"parent-fieldname-text\">\n<div id=\"parent-fieldname-text\">\n<p><span class=\"tlid-translation translation\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"\" title=\"\">Design in all its forms not only makes our lives more beautiful, but also more pleasant and easier.<\/span> <span title=\"\">When designers do their utmost to design as widely as possible, this is called inclusive or universal design.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span title=\"\">\u201cUniversal design is not just about the building itself,\u201d explains Prof. dr.<\/span> <span title=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kuleuven.be\/wieiswie\/en\/person\/00039177\">Marc Dujardin<\/a>.<\/span> <span title=\"\">\u201cIt\u2019s also about the environment, how you reach a building, how you get inside, how you use and understand it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span title=\"\">Read more in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/architectuur.kuleuven.be\/departementarchitectuur\/english\/news\/news-uploaded-documents\/kw15-inclusiefdesign-vm-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the article<\/a> (Dutch) <span class=\"tlid-translation translation\" lang=\"en\"><span title=\"\">that appeared in Knack Weekend Magazine.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Design in all its forms not only makes our lives more beautiful, but also more pleasant and easier. When designers do their utmost to design as widely as possible, this is called inclusive or universal design. \u201cUniversal design is not just about the building itself,\u201d explains Prof. dr. Marc Dujardin. \u201cIt\u2019s also about the environment, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1266,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/masterofarchitecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/masterofarchitecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/masterofarchitecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/masterofarchitecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/masterofarchitecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/masterofarchitecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":977,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/masterofarchitecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975\/revisions\/977"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/masterofarchitecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/masterofarchitecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/masterofarchitecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/masterofarchitecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}