0033 - Making UCD Accessible with Tina Lowe

Host(s): Geoffrey Ax and Cian Hanlon 

Hi, I am Geoffrey

And I am Cian 

Today we are talking with Tina Lowe, UCD Campus Accessibility Officer".

You are very welcome to the podcast Tina. 

1.     Can you tell us a little about yourself to begin? 

2.     What designs, out in the world, end up creating inequality? 

3.     As someone with visual impairment, is dealing with design inequality a daily experience for you?

4.     How accessible is the University campus?

5.     One of the principles we talk about in this class is that “universal access” is a “universal requirement” for all designs. But how can we raise awareness of accessible design, when the barriers people encounter are invisible to the majority?

6.     In a recent letter to the Irish Times (Feb 12, 2022) Susan Dennehy, whose teenage daughter is a wheelchair user, concludes that “the charitable model of disability [must] be replaced by rights-based model”. Is that the solution? How can we make things better?

Other questions?

Well, we’ll wrap up there.

Thank you for sharing your thoughts and experiences today.

Acknowledgements

Music

(EzaOne - Supernova: youtu.be/xZDYu5azS-c)

Title: Eza One - Supernova

Artist: Argofox (record label)

Source: “https://soundcloud.com/argofox/ezaone-supernova”

License: “CC BY”

Argofox is a record label releasing royalty free music for creators to use in monetized videos and streams in exchange for credit.

Cover Art 

Title: The Driver - Humanscale Blueprint - Space Envelope for a Compact Automobile

Artist: Graphic design by Allen Higgins 

Source: file

License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

The graphic is under Fair Use and adapted from “Space Envelope for a Compact Automobile” from Humanscale 7/8/9 booklet by Niels Diffrient, Alvin R. Tilley and David Harman; Henry Dreyfuss Associates, M.I.T. Press (1981)

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