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Compliance to Compassion: A pedagogy using emotional engagement and other techniques for teaching accessible design to architecture students.

Universal Accessible Design in some form is included in the curriculum of all Architecture colleges. This subject is of importance not only from the point of view of compliance, but also for actually providing for the interaction of the Persons with Disabilities with the built environment. A special elective course was framed for architecture students on this subject called ‘Universally Accessible Design’ in an architecture college. The focus of the elective was to create a shift in the minds of the students by emotionally charged pedagogical exercises. The basis of these exercises was the premise that students will make a conscious effort to include Universal Accessibility interventions into the design if they meet and are sensitised towards the experiences of the Persons with disabilities. Along with this, students were made to undergo simulation exercises by themselves using wheelchairs and walking sticks. This was accompanied by case studies and lectures by a disability practitioner. At the end, students were asked to provide a feedback in the form of an anonymous and optional survey. All students agreed to the importance of such special electives for learning Universally Accessible Design. 87.5% stated that the elective has sensitised them towards the people with Disabilities.