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Conversations on opportunities, challenges and lived experiences to foster understanding between disabled and non-disabled communities. Insights into the tools and techniques used by people with disabilities navigating the worlds of work, education, travel, sport, the arts and leisure.
Because while we may be disabled we will never be disempowered.
128 - Tarryn Tomlinson on Understanding Smart Cities
A Different Way of Seeing
54 minutes 32 seconds
4 months ago
128 - Tarryn Tomlinson on Understanding Smart Cities
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In this episode, Lois chats with Tarryn Tomlinson from LiveAble Universal Access Consultants, an organisation that specialises in universal access solutions for the hospitality industry.
The conversation focuses on the impact that smart city initiatives could have on the inhabitants of a city, including those with disabilities.
We discuss the difference between smart and traditional city planning and design, how to ensure that people with disabilities are not left behind when it comes to the design, implementation and measurement of smart initiatives, and how to ensure that people who are not able or willing to engage with technology are not marginalised. We also consider the first steps that a city like that in which both Tarryn and I live may need to take to start incorporating smart technology into the planning and design process.
Reach out to Tarryn at the following links:
Web: www.liveablegroup.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/liveabledesign/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/liveablefocus
e-mail: tarryn@liveablegroup.com
Able2Travel Web: www.able2travel.co.za
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Credits and music by Charlie Dyasi.
A Different Way of Seeing
Conversations on opportunities, challenges and lived experiences to foster understanding between disabled and non-disabled communities. Insights into the tools and techniques used by people with disabilities navigating the worlds of work, education, travel, sport, the arts and leisure.
Because while we may be disabled we will never be disempowered.
