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Abstract Australia’s colonial history has silenced First Nations’ views of disability as a natural part of human diversity. Western systems pathologised indigeneity and disability, creating harmful deficit narratives and worsening inequality. Today, First Nations people are significantly more likely to experience disability or disabling chronic health conditions.
Outdated models of disability still dominate thinking in our built environment. Approaches grounded in old medical and charity models of disability have long reinforced a status quo trapped in hundred-year-old thinking – and it shows. Our cities are not only inequitable for people with disability, but they’re also hostile. Across the built environment, an awareness of disability is often missing.
Credit: Eren Li from Pexels Outdated models of disability still dominate thinking in our built environment. Approaches grounded in old medical and charity models of disability have long reinforced a status quo trapped in hundred-year-old thinking—and it shows. Our cities are not only inequitable for people with disability, but they're also hostile. This year, for International Day for People with Disability, we want to discuss a reality that many people living with disability face.
Let’s do lunch. You might think that this is an innocuous phrase, but it is not so for many people with disability. People with disability often face painful, ugly, time-consuming and exhausting barriers that many non-disabled people don’t even notice. It is clear that there is a gap in how spaces are designed, made and operated, a gap that should be occupied by people with disability.
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