Abstract
Universal design (UD) is often considered by architects to be something ancillary to architectural design and focused only on a small group of users. But it is an integral part of the design process that aims to create a better environment for all people.
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The project reported in this paper received funding from The Scientific Grant Agency of the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic and the Slovak Academy of Sciences, grant agreement No. 1/0996/11. The author thanks all the people who participated in this project, in particular the students of architecture and the academic staff of the Centre of Design for All (CEDA) at the Faculty of Architecture, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava.
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Ceresnova, Z. (2014). Student Engagement in Assessment of Universal Access of University Buildings. In: Langdon, P., Lazar, J., Heylighen, A., Dong, H. (eds) Inclusive Designing. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05095-9_13
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