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VDD Studio recently investigated redesigning the International Symbol of Access as part of a competition run by the International Union of Architects and Rehabilitation International. Check out our design and gain some insight into our design process.
In March 2022 Visionary Design Development hosted an MTalk ‘Disability, Human Rights, and the Built Environment’ at MPavilion. Many thanks to MPavilion, our fabulous guest speakers and the wonderful audience for attending.
Mary Ann’s article Models of Disability and Human Rights: Informing the Improvement of Built Environment Accessibility for People with Disability at Neighborhood Scale? published 2018 Laws, Topical Collection, Disability Human Rights Law, continues to be regularly viewed and/or downloaded.
Many thanks to Archnet-IJAR (Q1 Architecture journal) editors, Drs Beatriz Maturana, Ashraf M. Salama, and Anthony McInneny for accepting our contribution to the Special Issue: Architecture, Urbanism, and Health in a Post Pandemic Virtual World: Challenges and Opportunities in Education, Research, and Practice.
VDD Studio also recently participated in HerPlace – Building Trust International’s competition to provide a safe, secure, and inviting environment for empowering Nepalese women and girls.
In December 2020, VDD Studio (Visionary Design Development’s in-house research unit) participated in the international competition ‘Melbourne Affordable Housing Challenge’.
Many thanks to Our Community House for allowing Visionary Design Development to host the recent, very successful ‘Symposium: A Participatory Urban Aesthetic?’
Improving built environment ‘sustainability’ performance, via measurement, and placemaking performance, via ‘activation’, receives much contemporary attention.
The pervasive ideology of institutionalisation in the past has meant that we have inherited a built environment that is largely inaccessible to people with disability.
This very problematic situation serves as a reminder to built environment practitioners (procurers, designers, and constructors) that the 'standards' are not necessarily logical nor harmonised and, most certainly, do not guarantee inclusion. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-05-04/high-court-rules-on-disability-access-parliament-square-hobart/101036226
In the spirit of reconciliation Visionary Design Development also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea, and community. We pay our respect to elders past, present, and emerging, and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.
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