Functional diversity: a new approach for understanding our relationship with our surroundings

"The shift towards a new approach allows us to make an in-depth analysis of the general idea of "function", which we will consider as the mediation between the corporal and discursive nature (material and symbolic) of environments.

Using a set of optimum functioning conditions based on the absence of barriers, we will broaden the functioning relation between body and environment to include the relations we refer to as social appropriation of environments and as social innovation by the communities that participate in them." By Mario Toboso Martín