| Title |
Universal Design Characteristics of 'Design Seoul' Public Design Guidelines for Public Spaces |
| Authors |
Min Byoung-A ; Lee Soo-Jin ; Lee Yeun-Sook |
| Keywords |
Public Design ; Universal Design ; Public Space ; Design Seoul Public Design Guidelines |
| Abstract |
Recently, public design has become one of the big issues in Korea. Municipal government presented a number of projects related to public design. Seoul city also has many public design policies to improve the city image and to raise competitiveness through design. 'Design Seoul Public Design Guidelines' is one of the plans. This study aims to analyze 'the design guidelines for public spaces' among' Design Seoul Public Design Guidelines (DSPDG)' by Universal Design principles. Looking at the changing demography and lifestyles in our societies with a growing number of people of higher age and with functional restrictions and needs of various kinds and degrees, the issue of user oriented, appropriate standard is becoming more and more important. From this point of view, the principles of universal design should be seen as a quality assurance process in the whole public design process. 217 design guideline items of DSPDG were selected, and then it was analyzed by customized 'Product Performance Program' (PPP) which is based on 'Universal Design 7 principles'·As the result, the characteristics of 'Design Seoul Public Space Design Guidelines' were identified. 'Accessibility', 'Esthetics' and 'Safety' were the dominant principles over all the items. We expected the findings would be helpful not only to understanding Universal Design, but also to designing public environments for the users. |