Accessible City: The Game
Time: 3:00pm - 3:30pm
Venue: Ian Potter Auditorium, Kenneth Myer Building
Accessible City is a disability-led videogame project that aims to use a ‘city-builder’ format – in which players construct and reimagine urban spaces – to foreground the experiences of people with disability in navigating ‘hostile’ and ableist design.
This presentation will be led by Associate Professor Eddie Paterson and Dr Radha O'Meara from the School of Culture and Communication in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne.
About the speakers
Eddie Paterson and Radha O'Meara are part of a dynamic team of six creative individuals also including Qambar Ali Akhteyari, Timothy Williams, Maddie Little and Hugh Crosthwaite who are leaidng the Accessible City project. Led by lived experience of disability, they are crafting a video game that encourages people to reimagine urban spaces with the kind of accessibility they want to see.
Kirsten Day lectures in Architecture at the University of Melbourne. She coordinates Construction as Alchemy and Architectural Practice. Prior to joining the faculty, she was Course Director of Interior Architecture at Swinburne University of Technology. She is a member of the Education Committee and Co-chair of the Research in Practice Committee with the Australian Institute of Architects (Victoria) and an examiner for the Architects Registration Board of Victoria. Kirsten is a registered Architect and director of Norman Day + Associates Architects with over 20 years experience working in the profession. Her publications, workshops, and studios explore themes of future scenarios and the impact of change on the architectural profession and the human condition.