@Tribo "Why do you have to wait until you 'experience' [or try on a costume of disability] to realize that there’s something important in what [#disabled people] are telling you?"
#DisabledByDesign

80% of #neurodivergent people are (like me) #underemployed or #unemployed. Traditional #interview processes, #openplan offices and the need to comply with social expectations stop us gaining and retaining gainful employment. We are #DisabledByDesign, #disabled by majority *choice*.

But valuing us only for our economic output, or adding "new skillsets" and "#inspiration to a workplace" is not #inclusion. It is dehumanizing.

#autistic #adhd #dyslexia #neurodiversity

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/aug/25/wired-differently-how-neurodiversity-adds-new-skillsets-to-the-workplace

Experts suggest measures to make towns more #walking friendly by increasing green man crossing times: "Most (84% of men & 93% of women) older than 65 cannot walk safely or fast enough to use a #pedestrian crossing".

#Copenhagen is a delight - I was comfortably able to cross the road before the green man turned red.
#CorkCity crossing times are as short as 8 seconds, and never long enough at my walking speed.
#accessibility #inclusion #disabled #DisabledByDesign

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jul/24/extend-green-man-crossing-times-cities-older-people

Here is my presentation at the #UIA #WorldCongressOfArchitects #Copenhagen 2023, "The Power of an #Autistic Lens: Visualising Activity in Shared #publicspace". Includes a link to the full (open access) preprint for download.
https://wordpress.stuartneilson.com/the-power-of-an-autistic-lens-visualising-activity-in-shared-public-space

#disability #disablement #accessibility #inclusivity #DisabledByDesign #DCU #DublinCityUniversity #AutismFriendly

I am looking forward to presenting at the UIA World Congress of Architects 2023 in Copenhagen, in the science panel on "Design for #inclusivity".

#PublicSpace #autistic #inclusion #disabled #DisabledByDesign

https://www.archdaily.com/997929/the-uia-world-congress-of-architects-2023-copenhagen-science-track-announces-the-6-themes-of-its-agenda

Edmonton's insistence on contiguous sidewalks-to-roadways is a key factor in preventing residential areas from remaining #accessible year-round.

Current warm weather melts windrows or snowpack on unplowed streets. Even IF residents cleared their walks thoroughly, the walks become flooded from roadmelt, and then refreeze as a sheet of smooth ice.

Remediating to include boulevards between would reduce/eliminate this.

#yegAccessible
#yeg
#yegwx
#osteoporosis
#TrappedByDesign
#DisabledByDesign