Book chapters

This chapter outlines some key aspects of disability studies and considers how this strongly emerging field is intersecting with scholarship and activism across many varieties of neurodivergence.

This chapter discusses an “Equalities Design” approach that informs and guides my practice as a designer. Using the frame of post-normative equity, I have been developing Equalities Design tools, methods and approaches that interrogate and queer normative (including neuronormative) assumptions in order to create alternative bodymind explorations and experimental outputs.

"This chapter presents examples of inclusive architecture for atypical people, designed by Allen Kong Architects (AKA). The design philosophy of AKA is that the quality of life of the individual is first and foremost within their community, and that this requires addressing their individual needs in a way that also recognizes their social, economic and environmental context.

This chapter advances Goals 7, 16, and 10 by exploring the tensions between democracy and procedural justice across two diverse case studies from Canada (wind energy) and the United States (oil and gas). The authors identify a common scalar mismatch between the interests and power of those exercising democracy at provincial/state levels and those living locally and impacted by development—straining to have their voices heard.