Tracey Proudlock on May 26, 2020
`Will the ongoing pandemic crisis make you forget to build an inclusive world?’, asks Kirsten Galea, Architect & Access Consultant Trainee
I’m sure that like me you have come across a few articles about what the post-Covid world will look like or what changes we will see. So many people are trying to imagine how the world will change and how they can contribute to building this new world. The construction...
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Tracey Proudlock on April 20, 2020
Let’s make physical activity fit for all
The power of physical activity to create and unite communities is showing itself online, right now. Gyms and leisure centres are closed, most of us in are in lockdown and ‘The Body Coach’ Joe Wicks is the rising star. He is broadcasting P.E Lessons every weekday morning on YouTube for schoolchildren...
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Tracey Proudlock on March 30, 2020
Changing Places win Budget backing: a reason to smile
Kirsten Galea, architect and training access consultant with Proudlock Associates, shares some great news for inclusion that you might have missed. Here’s some good inclusion news for you: the government has promised a £30 million Changing Places Fund. Amid the doom and gloom of the Covid-19 pandemic, this is definitely...
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Tracey Proudlock on January 3, 2017
Never say never to access for disabled people at the front door
One ‘Old Lady’ is back on trend as far as access for disabled people is concerned: wheelchair users can (finally) get into the Bank of England through the front door. This is thanks to an ingenious new lift, which combines function with a form that doesn’t detract from the aesthetics...
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