By: Janet Roche & Carolyn Robbins

• Hosted By: Janet Roche
  
• Edited by: Andrew Parrella
• Guest: Ed Warner, Motionspot
  
• Photo Credit: Motionspot
  

Inclusive Designers Podcast: Ed Warner of Motionspot joins IDP to explore the need for inclusive design that is both functional and beautiful… not only in the home, but in hotels, the workplace and even for the late Queen Elizabeth’s palace! Ed shares some great examples of how Motionspot is raising the bar beyond the minimum required standards to design environments for people with a range of physical, cognitive, sensory needs— including neurodiversity. We also discuss the ‘Design Crimes’ being made and how to solve them!

Guest: Ed Warner-  is co-founder of Motionspot, a global firm based in the UK that focuses on creating accessible spaces in the home, the workplace, and hotels. They also started the company ‘Fine and Able’ to take what they learned at Motionspot and use it to provide the best products for a wide range of conditions and needs.

“I’m a big believer that if you get the environment right for people,
you can really positively impact cognitive and physical health…”

Ed Warner- contact: ed@motionspot.co.uk

– References: 

• Motionspot
• Fine & Able
• The Benefits to Business of Embracing Disability- London Sunday Times
• Access All Areas- including the Queens Balmoral Palace- London Sunday Times
• Motionspot Brings Function & Form to Accessible Design-Metropolis Magazine
• Designing Inclusive Workplaces- White paper
• Designing Stylish Accessible Toilet Facilities- White paper
• “Wash and Dry” Bidet Toilets
• Design for the Mind- Inclusive spaces for Neurodivergent Groups
• Designing Inclusive All Gender Toilets
• Hotel Brooklyn, Manchester UK- Accessible facilities
• Barclays- Inclusive Office Design
• Missy’s House, Northamptonshire- Accessible Rental Home
• Matteo Zallio- IDP Episode “Tools for Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Accessibility”
• Pinar Guvenc, Sour- IDP Episode “The Importance of Co-Design!”

Transcript:

Creating Functional Spaces & Solving Design Crimes!
Guest: Ed Warner, Motionspot

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