I recently watched a TED talk given by Sinead Burke, the
disability rights activist, called “Why design should include everyone”.
In the TED talk Sinead speaks about living in a world
designed for people of a ‘normal height’ and tells us how as a little person,
who is 3 foot 5 inch, she comes across different problems in daily life. Some of these problems relate to locking
toilet doors, being unable to reach cups in coffee shops and sitting on chairs.
Sinead speaks more about these issues in her empowering BBC Desert Island Discs podcast saying,
“We have become so focused designing a world for one specific type of
person that our lens has been so narrow that if we widened it to include a
whole host of people, we’ll realise quickly that has benefit and value for everybody”
Over to you, have you experienced inaccessible building
designs? If so, where and what happened?
Or have you seen a good example of an
inclusive building or shop that was easy to get around?
Let us know your thoughts in the comments.
