Inclusive Spaces: Disability-Inclusive Design for Climate Resilient Cities

The climate crisis is changing our daily lives in cities and urban spaces, and we’re starting to focus more and more on sustainability and climate resilience in the built environment industry.

An ever-greater need for inclusive, sustainable and resilient cities is highlighted in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG11), but we have limited urban design and planning tools to achieve these goals in practice – particularly when it comes to disability inclusion.

Disabled people are more likely to be impacted by the climate crisis and disasters, but design solutions and processes still often lack accessibility, and don’t meaningfully include disabled people in the design of a resilient future. This needs to change.

In this event, we’ll share evidence from the UK Aid funded AT2030 programme demonstrating the need for inclusive design to create climate resilience and sustainability. We’ll focus on case studies from inclusive cities in the Global South.

We’ll be joined by global experts who will share how the climate crisis is impacting disabled people, and what disability-inclusive and resilient solutions might look like.

As this session takes place in the weeks following the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) in Egypt, we will also reflect on progress in disability-inclusive climate action since last year’s COP26 conference and discuss priorities for the future.

Led by The Bartlett Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) group, the Inclusive Spaces monthly series presents the latest ideas and research from The Bartlett’s leading thinkers in the built environment field. We explore disability, race, gender, LGBTQ+ and many other dimensions of diversity and discover how they intersect with built environments around the world.

Housekeeping

The Inclusive Spaces lecture series are streamed live through Zoom. Please ensure you have downloaded Zoom, created an account and are logged in before joining the event.

This session will be recorded and auto-transcribed. The recording along with the transcript will be shared with registered attendees after the event has ended.

This event will be BSL interpreted.

If you have any accessibility requirements or additional queries, please contact Alma Daskalaki at a.daskalaki@ucl.ac.uk. Please note we require two working days' notice for requests.