Keynote speaker @ World Bank Group – WBG Youth Event 2022: Greater inclusion for people with disabilities.
My contribution: How is AMAIS contributing to creating a more inclusive society.
My contribution: How is AMAIS contributing to creating a more inclusive society.
My contribution: inclusive design and the importance of the built environment in an equitable society. https://civitas.eu/events/future-leaders-editia-a-iiia
My contribution: designing the experience model, testing the accessibility of the facilities, training on empathy, biases, accessibility and inclusive design, teaching how to do accessibility analysis, coordinating the project.
My contribution: the role that accessibility has in urban mobility and how & why should the public administration and built environment professionals take into consideration the needs of a diverse range of users. More information on the event: https://greencommunity.ro/orasul-la-scara-umana-manifest-pentru-mobilitate-urbana-sustenabila-20-septembrie-2022-arcub-gabroveni/
My contribution: AMAIS as a best practice model for inclusive design in education https://www.facebook.com/events/694617945756051/?post_id=694617955756050&view=permalink
SALTO-YOUTH stands for Support, Advanced Learning and Training Opportunities for Youth. It works within the Erasmus+ Youth and the European Solidarity Corps programmes. It is a network of seven Resource Centres working on European priority areas within the youth field. As part of the European Commission's Training Strategy, SALTO-YOUTH provides non-formal learning resources for youth workers and youth leaders and organises training and contact-making activities to support organisations and National Agencies (NAs) within the frame of the European Commission's Erasmus+ Youth programme, the European Solidarity Corps, and beyond. For the ID Forum 2023 I was invited to organise and facilitate a workshop: Empathy Retreat - Inclusive Dialogue: Using the Empathy Retreat as an instrument to take the first steps into inclusive design process - understanding exclusion. https://2023idforum.salto-youth.net/contributors.html
My contribution was in panel 3 Unlock opportunities: Empowering Workers with Disabilities, empathy as a key factor in changing minsets and the responsibility that corporations in this topic of accessibility. https://www.rdcc.ro/event/romania-accessibility-awareness-day-2023/
Contribution: RE-IMAGINING DESIGN category, Empathy Retreat: Inclusive Dialogue. An instrument to turn accessibility and inclusion into natural parts of the design process and participation as speaker at the ROUND TABLE RE-IMAGINING DESIGN https://www.uauim.ro/en/events/20-architectural-experiences/
Contribution: presentation on inclusive design, empathy exercises and book launch “Design Incluziv: Exerciții de empatie în proiectare”. I have also invited for this talk, my colleague, Alex Cucu, who is one of the 7 blind active IT engineers in Romania. https://fast.oar.archi/2023/
Contribution: the importance of empathy in design and official book launch of the first Romanian inclusive design guide. https://www.anuala.ro/2023/conferinta-inclusive-cities/