Wayfinding of People with Disability and Reduced Mobility in the Urban Space

Author(s):  
Raphael Freitas Souza ◽  
Laura Bezerra Martins
2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 155
Author(s):  
Sophie Mariani-Rousset

Dans les politiques de la ville en France, les personnes à mobilité réduite font l’objet d’une attention particulière. Comment se rendre en ville, circuler, rejoindre différents bâtiments éloignés les uns des autres? Avancer dans l’espace est une condition essentielle de l’Homme, lui permettant de se déplacer, certes, mais aussi de rêver ou de réfléchir. Pour les personnes à mobilité réduite, aller d’un lieu à un autre étant difficile, la mobilité se réduit souvent à de petits trajets, dans des actions où domine l’obligation et non le plaisir. Avoir accès à l’espace urbain au sens large du terme, permettre aux individus de se déplacer librement en évoluant dans un environnement approprié représente donc un enjeu politique qui intéresse les sociologues, les urbanistes... et les designers. Cheminer implique non seulement d’avoir des lieux sans trop d’obstacles, mais également de pouvoir faire des haltes tout au long du parcours. L’étude présentée ici se penche sur la possibilité d’instaurer des repères fixes grâce à des lieux d’assise répartis dans l’espace de la cité afin que les personnes à mobilité réduite puissent non seulement se reposer, mais aussi procéder par étapes lorsqu’elles se rendent loin de chez elles et/ou dans des lieux différents. In urban political agendas in France, people with reduced mobility are given special attention. How can they get to the city, go around, and reach different buildings that may be far from each other? Moving around is an essential condition of mankind, which makes it possible to go somewhere, of course, but also to dream or reflect about things. For people with reduced mobility, moving from one place to another is difficult, and mobility is often reduced to small trips often dictated by obligation rather than pleasure. Having access to urban space in the broadest sense of the term, allowing individuals to move freely while at the same time evolving in an appropriate environment is therefore a political issue of interest for sociologists, town planners, and designers. Finding one’s way implies not only reaching places without encountering too many obstacles, but also being able to make stops all along the route. The study presented here examines the possibility of establishing fixed landmarks by means of seating spots distributed throughout the city so that people with reduced mobility can not only rest, but also proceed step by step going from one place to the next. 


Author(s):  
Manoj Raje ◽  
Karvita B. Ahluwalia

In Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia motility of lymphocytes is associated with dissemination of malignancy and establishment of metastatic foci. Normal and leukemic lymphocytes in circulation reach solid tissues where due to in adequate perfusion some cells get trapped among tissue spaces. Although normal lymphocytes reenter into circulation leukemic lymphocytes are thought to remain entrapped owing to reduced mobility and form secondary metastasis. Cell surface, transmembrane interactions, cytoskeleton and level of cell differentiation are implicated in lymphocyte mobility. An attempt has been made to correlate ultrastructural information with quantitative data obtained by Laser Doppler Velocimetry (LDV). TEM of normal & leukemic lymphocytes revealed heterogeneity in cell populations ranging from well differentiated (Fig. 1) to poorly differentiated cells (Fig. 2). Unlike other cells, surface extensions in differentiated lymphocytes appear to originate by extrusion of large vesicles in to extra cellular space (Fig. 3). This results in persistent unevenness on lymphocyte surface which occurs due to a phenomenon different from that producing surface extensions in other cells.


2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suzanne Ballard
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2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 97-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Harris

This essay draws upon the author’s performance script Fall and Walter Benjamin’s The Arcades Project as a provocation for considering the ways performance texts provide a threshold for somatic inquiry, and for recognizing the limits of scholarly analysis that does not take up performance-as-inquiry. Set at the Empire State Building, this essay embodies the connections and missed possibilities between strangers and intimates in the context of urban modern life. Fall’s protagonist is positioned within a landscape of capitalist exchange, but defies this matrix to offer instead a gift at the threshold of life/death, virtual/real, and love/loss. Through somatic inquiry and witnessing as threshold experiences, the protagonist (as Benjamin’s flaneur) moves through urban space and time, proving that both scholarship and performance remain irrevocably embodied, and as such invariably tethered to the visceral, the stranger, risk, and death.


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