Wayfinding
Series of projects that focus on wayfinding design, specifically creating inclusive orientation and information panels that enhance the accessibility of the built environment. The panels are designed to guide all users effectively, making public spaces more navigable and user-friendly. By improving wayfinding, everyone, regardless of ability, can easily access and understand their surroundings.
SenseAbility
A long-term AMAIS initiative which aims to create a socio-cultural platform, a meeting place between able-bodied people and those with disabilities. The initiative aims to identify existing spaces that could offer a rich sensory experience and creates a proper context in which these characteristics are amplified while generating an inclusive context of interaction.
The Inclusive Table
Christmas markets are bustling spaces where people shop, eat, and socialize, but how accessible are they for people with temporary or permanent disabilities? This question guided the design of the “Inclusive Table,” a modular installation created for a Christmas market in Ljubljana for Mastercard Slovenia. The installation, featuring circular tables and benches with varying accessibility features, aims to collect user experiences and stories related to inclusion, while fostering a dynamic and adaptable dialogue space.
Inclusive Waterfront on the Danube
Mahmudia, a commune on the edge of the Danube Delta, is attracting increasing tourism, prompting the Local Council to develop the Danube bank into an inclusive public space for both locals and visitors. The project, created through community consultations, focus groups, and feedback sessions, resulted in an accessible infrastructure featuring the Mineral Park, the Communal Promenade, and the Communal Garden. The design prioritizes accessibility, circulation, and orientation, with ongoing assessments planned to ensure ease of use and accessibility for all.
A Place for Us
In Bucharest, public space is primarily dedicated to vehicles rather than pedestrians, causing tensions between drivers and pedestrians and prompting inventive ways to claim space due to a lack of action from authorities. There is a growing movement advocating for pedestrian prioritization and reclaiming public spaces, but community consensus is needed for progress. A Place for Us is an initiative using a simple bench installation during Street Delivery 2020 to reclaim a pedestrian area, highlighting the need for public spaces that foster social interaction and long-term community benefits
PopUP Răspiua – Inclusive, Mobile Playground
PopUP Răspiua, part of the Răspiua initiative, is a mobile, inclusive play installation designed to connect able-bodied children and those with disabilities. Featuring geometrical, modular designs that stimulate imagination and sensory perception, it supports cognitive and social development.
The UNINVITED
The UNINVITED is an AMAIS project that involves a series of installations and exhibitions aimed at exploring and challenging society’s perspective on accessibility, inclusion, and disability.
La Firul Ierbii Community Centre
The La Firul Ierbii/Grassroots project creates a public, well-equipped and inclusive civic space for city and neighborhood interaction. It aims to evolve into a local civic forum, fostering community engagement.
Răspiua – Inclusive Playground
“Răspiua” fosters personal development for all children through a multi-sensory playground, inclusive of those with disabilities. This initiative aims to create accessible public playgrounds nationwide, promoting empathy and social education. Designed with input from children, the project includes a playground installed in District 4 (2016-2017) and a sensory garden added to enhance multi-sensory experiences (2018-2019). “Răspiua” signifies the opposite of “time-out” in Romanian childhood lingo.
Empathy Retreat
During 25-29th of August 2022, we organised the Empathy Retreat in Sibiu, an intersectional research project that brought together 32 people from different social and professional categories: architects, urban planners, landscape architects, expert citizens, local councillors from city halls, activists, all of them from the LGBTQIA+ spectrum, or with visual, locomotor or hearing disabilities, neurodivergent and (temporarily) able-bodied people.
Inclusive dialogue is the first step for accessibility to become a priority in the design and development of public or private spaces. The goal of the retreat is to challenge individual perspectives on human diversity and how they define our relationship with the environment.