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Trying to make technology work better for disabled people and cities work better for everyone. Ex BBC2 #BigLifeFix, @Dyson, @HHCDesig. Makes robots @CraftyRobot
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ALT Photo of a traiangular road works sign with a black and white arrow below it supported on a plastic structure comprising a lozenge shaped base and a vertical post. The base and post are both dark grey but the ends of the base are panted yellow. The sign is on the edge of a footway.
ALT Photo of a roughly T shaped structure covered with leaves and flowers with a leaf covered hoop at each end of the horizontal part. It’s growing out of the top of a lozenge shaped grey and yellow plastic base.
ALT Photo of a angular but vaguely circular glass award. It says “National Transport Awards 2023; Best practice in diversity, inclusivity and accessibility; City of London Street Accessibility Tool (CoLSAT)”. In the background is a hotel ballroom with purple and blue lighting and candles on the tables.
ALT Photo of a grey plastic figure that looks cute and a bit like David Attenborough in a safari suit, standing in a Duplo scene with grass, trees, lions and a giraffe.
ALT Detail image of the same image showing the figure slightly from above with the lions in the background
ALT A graphic with the heading “HOT TAKE” and the text “Accessibility should not depend on how nice you ask.” Below it is a cartoon showing a wheelchair user facing a ramp that has been locked with a padlock. A nearby sign reads “Ramp available, please ask staff.” The wheelchair user is thinking, “Imagine locking the stairs.”
ALT Photo of two white dudes with glasses and brown hair. One of them (Ross) has a moustache and his hair is greying a bit.
ALT Photo of the same two white dudes. The one with a moustache has visibly greyer hair than the previous image and the other one looks like he’s put on some weight.
ALT Another photo of the same two guys. The one with the moustache has even greyer hair and the other one looks like his hair is slightly thinning.
ALT Another photo of the same dudes the one with the moustache has even greyer hair and the other one looks like he’s lost the weight he put on in the second image but also has lines on his face
ALT Photo of a white man (Ross) with curly grey hair, clear-rimmed glasses and a brown moustache and a white woman (Ruby) with long straight blond hair standing on a street corner smiling.
ALT Photos of an part of a street where the road and pavement are at the same height. There is a controlled crossing point marked with blister paving and the areas adjacent to it which are level but not crossing points have corduroy paving between the pavement and road.
ALT Photo of a cycle only street with 60mm high kerbs between footway and cycle track and a bollards blocking access for motor vehicles with a gap of 1.4m between them
ALT Photo of six people standing on a pavement with the royal exchange, mansion house and bank tube station visible in the background. Where they are standing the footway and carriageway are level but there is 800mm deep paving delineating the boundary.
ALT Annotated image showing two women moving down the pavement of a main road. One of the women is travelling in a powered wheelchair with an assistance dog, the other is walking. The annotations draw attention to 6 of the features of the footway and are accompanied by collections of either red or green symbols representing different impairment and mobility aid combinations. The labels accompanied by green symbols are: “Pole within 0.5m of tactile paving”, “Kerb drop <1/12, 4.7 degrees, 8%” and “Blister paving full width”. The ones accompanied by red symbols are: “U-shaped drainage gulley”, “Street furniture < 1m from building line” and “Lower tactile contrast with surrounding paving”.