As part of the UCL Knowledge Lab seminar series, this talk is about how bodies come to be articulated – and treated differentially – in the design of built space.
In collaboration with disabled artists from The DisOrdinary Architecture Project, Jos is exploring ways to critically and creatively rethink how we ‘do’ disability within architecture and design, as well as within society more widely.
Rather than being a mere technical problem for architecture, thinking and 'doing' dis/ability differently turns out be a creative generator for design, a powerful critique of what is assumed 'normal', a vital means for troubling everyday design assumptions about space and its occupancy, and an enabling mechanism towards new collective and emergent forms of social, spatial and material equity.
Talk recorded on June 11th 2020