Map4Accessibility Project, An Inclusive and Participated Planning of Accessible Cities: Overview and First Results
Author(s)
Date Issued
2024
Type
bookPart
Volume
463
Start Page
266
End Page
277
Abstract
Map4Accessibility is a recently founded ERASMUS+ project aimed
at fostering Higher Educational Institution (HEI) service-learning (SL) through
the implementation of various activities for community accessibility mapping to
improve physical and digital accessibility of universities and cities. To achieve this
purpose, the Map4Accessibility project targets multiple profiles, including higher
education students, higher education staff, people with disabilities, elderly people
and residents in the areas being mapped. Following the SL criteria, the project
adopts a co-design process involving all stakeholders in all parts of the process
from issues identification and understanding to the mapping accessibility solution
generation. In this contribution, jointly with a global overview of the project, we
present the main results of the first work package, related to the facilitation guide
for explorative walks and the digital accessibility mapping review. The facilitation
guide aims to support students’ evaluation of accessibility issues in different urban
contexts following the SL pedagogical approach. The digital accessibility literature
and projects have fed some proposals for developing an inclusive citizen science
app for accessibility mapping.