De-ableising Design: Housing, Schools and Aged Care
Time: 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Venue: Ian Potter Auditorium, Kenneth Myer Building
This session explores designing inclusive environments for housing, schools and aged care. Part of this discussion is concerned with the recently released report on the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with a Disability, and the potential for universities to bridge the gap and ensure that people with disabilities are among graduates of design and construction disciplines.
The speaker presentations will be based on the following papers:
- How do I get outside? Belinda Seale
- Inclusive Schools, Magdalena Sliwinska
- Inclusive education, employment and housing: A design focused response to Volume 7 of the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability’s Final Report, Bernadette Egan and Andrew Martel
About the speakers
Belinda Seale is a registered architect and access consultant with over 25 years’ experience in design and delivery of enabling and therapeutic environments, along with accessible and inclusive design advisory services. She established her practice Haptic Space in 2018 and is currently undertaking interdisciplinary PhD research into nature-based design for stroke rehabilitation at Deakin University in conjunction with NOVELL Redesign based at the Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health. Belinda has represented the Australian Institute of Architects on the UIA Architecture for All work programme, serves on the Institute’s National Enabling Architecture Committee and chairs the Victorian subcommittee.
Magdalena Sliwinska is a creative and therapeutic arts practitioner (Masters in Therapeutic Arts, MIECAT) and sessional tutor with a degree in architecture and landscape architecture. Her primary interests revolve around methodologies and approaches grounded in sensitivities to the multifaceted human spirit. She has explored this through creative reflections ranging from embodied movement, model making, drawing, and writing (JID - The Spirit of Public Space: Embodied through Writing and Movement’, and Kerb - 'Sensitive Belonging in a Public Space'). She has also led design studios that focused on how autoethnographic embodied and multimodal site processes can inform the design of sensitively designed public spaces.
Andrew Martel is an Early Career Researcher whose teaching and research is focussed on understanding the composition of value in housing. This has included developing methodologies to assess the qualitative and quantitative characteristics of dwellings in order to trace the impact of decisions made outside of the design sphere; such as financing, taxation, regulation, and culture, on housing outcomes. His experience has included researching high-density student housing, remote Indigenous housing, and inner-city, affordable, family friendly housing. For the past few years Andrew has been investigating the potential of the NDIS to drive innovation in the production of accessible and adaptable domestic houses.
Derlie Mateo-Babiano is Assistant Dean, Diversity and Inclusion at the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning. Her research focuses on advancing knowledge in transportation planning research, with theory and policy implications within the Australian and Asian setting.
Derlie teaches Urban Design for People and Places as well as Cities without Slums and Placemaking for the Built Environment. Her latest books are Placemaking Sandbox Emergent Approaches, Techniques and Practices to Create more Thriving Places and Parking: An International Perspective.