ARQUITETURA INCLUSIVA:

EXPERIÊNCIAS DE PROJETOS COLABORATIVOS

Abstract

This paper presents the use of collaborative projects in architecture as a form of social inclusion for people with visual impairment, a partnership between the Association of the Blind - APACE (community) and the Stricto Sensu Postgraduate Program in Architecture and Urbanism (IMED). The article aims to describe two collaborative projects, one with the adults of the association for the improvement of an internal space and the elaboration of a proposal for an external area for living and leisure. The second collaborative project was carried out with the children of the association to elaborate a toy, to be inserted within the proposal of improvement of the internal area, and an adaptation of a toy, created in a discipline of graduation in architecture and urbanism, for placement in the external area. Tries to demonstrate the importance of collaborative projects as a way of including the PcDV, as they are able to increase well-being and self-esteem, while effectively participating in the creation of the environment in which they are inserted, they manage to leave the passive zone that normally are in relation to the architectural design process.