Norway to showcase inclusive design at London Design Biennale
Norway’s contribution to London’s first Design Biennale in September is Reaching for Utopia – Inclusive Design in Practice, an exhibition of civic projects that make the case for inclusive design as a strategy for building a better world.
How Designing With All of Our Senses Creates a More Inclusive World
Universal Design new standard in accessibility
University of Nevada, Reno’s Pennington Student Achievement Center, have been built with universal design in mind. The classrooms have been set up in a way that allows everyone to see what the instructor is teaching by using multiple projectors, and anyone can sit at a table of their choosing.
innovative solutions for Universal Design (isUD™) recently launched
Designing an Active, Healthier City
Despite a firm reputation for being walkers, New Yorkers have an obesity epidemic on their hands. Lee Altman, a former employee of New York City’sDepartment of Design and Construction, explains it this way: “We did a very good job at designing physical activity out of our daily lives.”
WHY ACCESSIBILITY SHOULD BE PART OF TORONTO’S MUSIC CITY STRATEGY
Accessibility should be a top priority to make Toronto a Music City. Absent from the city-council-approved Toronto Music Strategy is a plan to address the widespread inaccessibility of our live music venues. And that’s putting pressure on the creative and disability communities to come up with solutions on their own, a burden neither should have […]
United Nations teams up with MIT to overhaul “very top-down” refugee design strategy
UNHCR has teamed up with D-Lab, a unit at Massachusetts Institute of Technology that develops user-centred design strategies, to explore ways of empowering refugee communities.
Disability rights groups sue MTA for excluding elevator at newly renovated Bronx subway station
The MTA is rolling over the rights of disabled people by failing to make newly renovated stations wheelchair accessible, a new class action lawsuit charges. In papers filed in Manhattan Federal Court, two disability advocacy groups say the MTA ignored the legal requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act when they performed a $21 million […]
How to Build Inclusive Cities
How do we build cities in which everyone—regardless of gender, sexual orientation, race, age, or ability—can live and thrive? Unfortunately, no silver-bullet answers or cookie-cutter solutions exist. But there are some imitable strategies that cities and citizens around the world are employing, and some of these were discussed at the Brookings Institution on Thursday.
How TD Bank HQ achieved WELL certification
Landlord-tenant partnership leads to world’s first v1 certification under WELL standard An interiors project for TD Bank headquarters, located in the TD Centre in downtown Toronto, recently became the world’s first project certified under v1 of the WELL Building Standard. What turned out to be a 18-month long process—optimizing 25,000 square feet of the 23rd floor—was […]