Accessible Futures: Disability, Environment, And Inclusion
Presented by Monash Design
DETAILS
Free, no booking required
Victorian Pride Centre
81 Fitzroy Street, St Kilda VIC, Australia
DATES
Tue 20 May 10am – 4pm
Wed 21 May 10am – 7pm
Thu 22 May 10am – 4pm
Accessible Futures: Disability, Environment, and Inclusion envisions possible futures informed by environmental activism and a disability framework, inspired by the work of theatre-maker Jess Kapuscinski-Evans. In collaboration with Jess, teams of design staff and students at Monash University have undertaken speculative and co-design research. The exhibition showcases a series of artefacts and diagrammatic representations of these imagined accessible and inclusive futures.
Participants
Giorgia Pisano
Giorgia Pisano is a creative practice researcher at Monash University specialising in waste and sustainability matters. Her passion for design education has led her to use design studios as experiments in innovation, to test how heutagogical approaches can help cultivate creative capabilities for addressing wicked issues. Her teaching ethos encourages learners to understand their own positionality and intersectionality, alongside the (often ludic) exploration of their specific design challenges.
Chris Cottrell
Chris Cottrell is a practising spatial designer and senior lecturer at Monash University. His research explores our relationship to the built environment, with a focus on helping us to recognise and care about the subtle or invisible forces that influence the world around us. Working with air, pressure, breath, movement, textiles, optical effects, sound and listening, the broader question is one of how we can create meaningful relationships to our surrounding environments. He is currently designing new environments for living and studying in collaboration with people on the autism spectrum.