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A main priority in rebuilding Ukraine will be designing for disability
After several conversations with leading Ukrainian architects Iryna Ivanivna Humenyuk heard the same conclusion echoed again and again: The main priority in rebuilding Ukraine will be designing for disability. Can a country with a long history of stigmatizing the invalid pivot into a sanctuary for the impaired? If so, how?Approximately 300,000 Ukrainians registered for disability in the first 18 months of the war and most of their built environment is not accessible. Here are architects and historical precedents on how to rebuild and design for accessibility and human dignity.