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• Slide Presentation for the lecture of: Ben Richards, Inclusive Thru Design, Australia

• Topic of lecture: Playing at Inclusion: How Can we Build Better Communities

• The lecture was given at Beit Issie Shapiro’s 6th International Conference on Disabilities - Israel

• Year: 2015

PLAYING AT INCLUSIONBeit Issie Shapiro 6th International

Conference on Disabilities 2015

INTRODUCTION

• Inclusive play is an important step in creating inclusive communities. • Like all playgrounds inclusive playgrounds rely on ACCESS

and ENGAGEMENT.

ACCESS

• Access is not just a physical issue, but also social and emotional.• Social access includes gathering spaces and spatial

arrangements.• Emotional access for neurologically impaired users requires

a space that is predictable. This is done using environmental cues.

CUEING

Environmental cues are the design intervention that allows access to a playground for those with an ASD.Colouring or texturing the ground plane assists in way finding in secondary spaces for those with an ASD and visual impairment.

ENGAGEMENT

• Access alone does not make a space inclusive.• Engagement requires the user’s ability to be the measure

not age.• Opportunities for inter-generational play.• Graduated challenges ensure the activities aren’t

intimidating.• Single use equipment allow those with an ASD to assess

potential social and physical contact.• Opportunities for Individual, Parallel and Group play

EQUIPMENT CHOICES

CONCLUSION

• Requirements for Access and Engagement of those with a disability are not special needs, they are just needs.• Inclusive playground design is creating a space that caters

to the diversity of the people that want to use it.• An inclusive playspace looks no different than a traditional

playground, its difference is in how the design interventions are interpreted by the users.

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