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Universal Design as Guiding, Striving and Unifying: A Qualitative Study about how Universal Design is Understood, Practised and Realised in Contemporary Sweden Cover

Universal Design as Guiding, Striving and Unifying: A Qualitative Study about how Universal Design is Understood, Practised and Realised in Contemporary Sweden

Open Access
|Jun 2021

Figures & Tables

Table 1

Identification (ID), gender, occupation and QH areas.

IDGenderOccupationQH areas
i1MAcademic designerIND+UNI
i2MAccessibility expertIND+UNI+CIV
i3FArchitect & ActivistIND-CIV
i4MDesignerIND
i5FAcademic architectUNI
i6FDisability ActivistCIV
i7MCivil servantGOV+CIV
i8MCivil servantGOV
Table 2

Categories, subcategories and number of codes according to qualitative content analysis (Graneheim & Lundman 2004).

CategorySubcategories with number of codes
OpinionsThe term UD (9), Use of UD (9), Attitudes (2)
StrategiesPolicy (9), Justice (9), Struggle (9), Process (7)
ObservationsHistory (6), Trends (3), Conflicts (2)
Table 3

Function, orientation, application, goal and dilemma of the three ways of talking about UD.

Ways of talking about UDFunctionOrientationApplicationGoalDilemma
GuidingProcess toolInstrumen-talDesign processAccessibilityAbstract
StrivingIdealVisionarySocietyUDUtopian
UnifyingIntegratingConviction-alPolicy levelInclusionConflict of interest
DOI: https://doi.org/10.16993/sjdr.770 | Journal eISSN: 1745-3011
Language: English
Page range: 158 - 168
Submitted on: Sep 23, 2020
Accepted on: Feb 4, 2021
Published on: Jun 28, 2021
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

© 2021 Emil Erdtman, Kirsten Rassmus-Gröhn, Per-Olof Hedvall, published by Stockholm University Press
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