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Normalization
Normalization was coined in the 1950s by a Danish administrator N. E. Barnk-Mik-kelsens when he used it as a concept to propose a welfare policy for mentality disabled children to the government. Initially&sbquo this concept was put together to establish a facility for providing mentally disabled children wit~ educational care&sbquo but graduaiiy expanded its scope of application to include the ideal welfare administration for disabled people in general. Bank-Mikkelsens claimed that quality of life is important for everybody&sbquo and disabled people should be able to live like others in general society&sbquo and not only through institutional care and nursing. This concept of normalization then became the worldwide ideology and principle for the policy making&sbquo practice&sbquo and move-mends of social welfare&sbquo and was defined as a welfare policy concept that emphasized the individual dignity of the disabled and elderly through the activities of the International Year of Disabled Persons in 1981 . This definition&sbquo however&sbquo stresses the privacy and right to self-determination of the disabled and elderly&sbquo and states that the freedom of choice of the disabled and elderly should be respected even in potentially dangerous situations or where there may be unfortunate outcomes&sbquo and there is much debate regarding this point. That is&sbquo in the policy and practice of social welfare&sbquo there are still issues where debate occurs between polar opposite views Recently&sbquo design practice based on this concept of normalization is being at-tempted through the concept of universal design. It is regrettable&sbquo however&sbquo that while normalization was the ideology and principle for administrative welfare policies&sbquo universal design has expanded into an extremely commercialistic concept it is&sbquo therefore&sbquo necessary to reorganize the concept and context of normalization since it is one of the most important aspects of design.