Building for People: Meaningful Access in Built Environments

Description

When: Thursday, January 23, 2025
Where: Online
Time: 9:00 am PST
CPD: 1 point
Presented By: 

Matthew Shaw
Head, Accessible Practice
Rick Hansen Foundation

Attendees will be challenged to think about diverse disability experiences, learn to recognize barriers to meaningful access, and apply accessibility principles to support their projects – including important considerations to support renovation and retrofit projects.

Learning Outcomes

• Develop a framework for understanding disability
• Think beyond compliance mindset to the experience of meaningful access
• Understand how various features of built environments contribute to experience of access
• Discover principles for evaluating the built world for accessibility barriers
• Focus on identifying common challenges to accessibility for renovation and retrofit projects
• Introduction to integrating accessibility in retrofit projects (what are the cost/delivery implication?)