Ph.D. Arch. Iris Popescu
  • September 27, 2024
Consultations on the development of an inclusive disaster response training course.

@ The World Bank in Bucharest.

Through this initiative, the World Bank team supports the efforts of the Department for Emergency Situations (DSU) and the General Inspectorate for Emergency Situations (IGSU) in preparing people with disabilities for disaster situations. The goal is to develop an inclusive course to help individuals with disabilities identify their needs in case of a disaster and create customized safety strategies for the emergency teams.

I was invited to represent AMAIS and to discuss accessibility requirements for the built environment in disaster situations. My primary focus was on prevention, specifically exploring ways for authorities to place greater emphasis on accessibility when issuing operating permits.

people with and without disabilities sitting around a table.
  • November 3, 2023
Speaker @ Festival For Architecture School of Tomorrow STUDENTS SLOT – TALKS

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/

Me and Alex on stage presenting.
  • June 3, 2023
Workshop Leader @ ID Forum 2023, SALTO

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

  • May 25, 2023
Keynote speaker @ Accessible Chișinău Forum, CDPD Moldova The “Accessible Chișinău” forum is organized by the Civic Platform – Chisinau Accessible for All

My contribution: AMAIS as a best practice model for inclusive design in education

https://www.facebook.com/events/694617945756051/?post_id=694617955756050&view=permalink

  • August 20, 2022
Coordinator, trainer and facilitator @ Empathy Retreat, AMAIS project

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.

 

  • June 24, 2022
Trainer @ Future Leaders: Inclusion and Accessibility of Public Spaces, Civinet Romania.

My contribution: inclusive design and the importance of the built environment in an equitable society.
https://civitas.eu/events/future-leaders-editia-a-iiia