Universal Design And...

What can be learnt from diverse disabled people’s expertise and creativity in making more inclusive products, buildings and environments?   The last episode in the series of Universal Design and… focuses on the knowledge gained by negotiating inaccessible designs that disabled people have. We also talk about the importance om enabling disabled people to become designers in their own right, as well...

How can we both capture, and design for, the richness of human bio and neurodiversity rather than for standardized or conventional users?   In this second episode of Universal Design and… we get into the practical methods of how we can design more inclusively and how non-disabled people can develop their understanding of non-conventional bodies and minds as a positive factor rather than as an assu...

How might we think differently about disability – and ability – as a way of opening alternative ways to design for everyone? In this first episode in the 3 episode series Universal Design and… your host Jos Boys and her guests will expand, stretch and challenge the concept of Universal Design. They will shed light on how stereotypes of disability (and ability) limit ways of designing for diverse b...