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    Enability: Enabling the Disabled
    (North Dakota State University, 2023) Krenik, Piper
    Currently, in architecture there is a lack of urgency to design for inclusivity. There are guidelines put forward to create accessible buildings, but these guidelines are the minimum. The ADA guidelines, in general, ensure that all people can use all parts of a building and that people can get required information to get around a space. There are many kinds of disabilities that are not accounted for with these bare minimum rules and just as many creative solutions to include in designs to create a new way to design accessible buildings.
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    Enability: How Architecture Can Enable the Disabled
    (North Dakota State University, 2024) Krenik, Piper
    Enability is designing with empathy from the very beginning of a design. It incorporates design strategies for a variety of disabilities, as well as tackling the difficulties that are known to disproportionately affect those with disabilities, such as employment and access to childcare. It features a community center, located in Rochester, Minnesota, that incorporates a full restaurant and childcare center with the goal of providing both services as well as employment opportunities for individuals with disabilities in the area. By considering as many aspects as possible it is hoped that this community center can be an example of how architects can move beyond the ADA requirements and choose to truly reimagine how the disability experience is transformed through their designs.