Doing disability differently: An alternative handbook on architecture, dis/ability and designing for everyday life

Boys challenges conventional architectural responses that reduce disability to technical access requirements or a stable user group. The book examines how bodies, spaces, practices and social expectations interact in everyday life. Its EDI contribution is to make disability a generative critical lens for architecture, revealing assumptions about independence, normality and use. This matters because design standards can be applied mechanically while the lived experience of navigating, dwelling and belonging remains excluded. The text offers alternative ways of observing and representing spatial relations, helping designers engage with complexity rather than seeking a single universal body. It strengthens connections between inclusive design, disability studies and architectural theory.