‘Do I Look Like an Object?’ A Quest of Exploring Person – Place Relationship of Disabling

Researches on enabling places have been done by measuring physical environments. The disabled researched tends to be ‘object of study’ and struggles are ‘neutrally out there’. Its outcomes tend to fail to meet their needs. To what extent the methodology help understandings of people-place relationship. The discussions based on an experiment and an exploration one wheelchair user negotiating socio-spatial impediments in daily life. A small physical barrier can be solved by design solution in the quantitative approach. However, it is more complicated in another. The paper invites rethinking roles of socio-cultural factors and positions of the disabled in the process.