title: First Year Students Evaluating an Award-Winning Project.
abstract: Universal Design is an innovative strategy, and should therefore be an integrated subject within a wider program of study. This is the idea behind an annual interdisciplinary seminar and exercise on universal design in the built environment, a cooperation between the Faculty of Health and Social Sciences and the Faculty of Engineering at Bergen University College. In 2014 we moved to a new campus. We now use the campus to illustrate universal design, and to evaluate the accessibility of the campus. This paper shows that first year students possess significant potential when it comes to evaluate accessibility in the built environment.
authors.affiliation: Department of Civil Engineering, Bergen University College, Norway.
authors.forename: Carolyn
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Ahmer
authors.affiliation: Department of Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy and Radiography, Bergen University College, Norway.
authors.forename: Ingebjørg
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Børsheim
mesh_terms: D001107:Architectural Accessibility / Q000592:standards; D006233:Persons with Disabilities; D017144:Focus Groups; D006801:Humans; D009788:Occupational Therapy / Q000193:education; D015397:Program Evaluation / Q000592:standards*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014495:Universities