27 March 2013, 14:00-23:59 -

Inclusive Design of Pedestrian Areas Seminar

 

A Greater London Branch Presentation

 

Date 27 March

2.00 pm to 4.30 pm followed by reception

Seminar - Inclusive Design of Pedestrian Areas

Venue University College London in the Sir David Davies Lecture Theatre, (2-5pm)

(located here: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/estates/roombooking/building-location/?id=045 . ) It is a new building and is wheelchair accessible and there are accessible toilets on the same floor.

Inclusive Design of Pedestrian Areas –

Research at UCL has highlighted some of the difficulties that wheelchair users experience in a pedestrian environment (principally designed for and by the able bodied), particularly if the surfaces are cambered to allow the water to run off. The fact is that it is not just wheelchair users who suffer from sloping pavements. The same could be said of mothers with buggies, users of shopping trolleys, people who use walking frames or who are old or infirm. However, if we simply "add in" design for those who use wheels we will make the space less accessible for other user groups e.g. the visually impaired. Research at RCA has highlighted the difficulties faced by visual impaired users, which mostly conflict with the needs of a ‘wheeled’ user. How will we as designers meet the challenge of creating pedestrian spaces and shared surfaces suitable for all?

This seminar provides an important opportunity to bring both practitioners and researchers together to discuss how we can provide improved street design for people now and in the future.

Speakers: Catherine Holloway (UCL), Ross Atkin (RCA), Kate Carpenter (Jacobs),

Stephen Golden (Head of Equality and Corporate Sustainability TfL)

 

Catherine Holloway is a Lecturer in Accessibility Engineering at the UCL Centre for Transport Studies. Her research focusses on measuring human movement in the built environment with a view to improving how people can access the places they wish to go. This research ranges from how people’s movement patterns are affected by train design, to detailed analysis of the effect of footway design on wheelchair biomechanics. Much of her research has been carried out at the UCL PAMELA facility (www.ucl.ac.uk/arg/pamela).

Ross Atkin is a design researcher working at the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design at the Royal College of Art. He has industrial experiencepractisingas a designer of street furniture and has conducted extensive qualitative research into the issues faced by people with sight loss in streets and public spaces on behalf of the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE), the Royal London Society for Blind People (RLSB) and the City of York. He is the author of the Sight Line publication focused on improving the design of streets for people with sight loss and the designer of the Sight Line street works system aimed at making street works less disruptive.

Kate Carpenter is Technical Director and leads Jacobs’ Road Safety practice group. This includes Safe Road Design; Road Safety Audit; Casualty Reduction, and Operational Road Safety Management. She provides a range of traffic and safety services to public and private sector clients including Highways Agency; Transport Scotland; Welsh Government; TfL and local highway authorities. She is Jacobs’ Managed Motorway Subject Matter Expert in Operational Safety as well as Safety lead for Jacobs’ work on Forth Replacement Crossing; and Managed Motorways work. Kate has been involved in the delivery of training in road safety audit, public realm, traffic calming, home zones, speed management, skid resistance policy, and providing for Non-Motorised Road Users. She is CIHT Road Safety Panel Chairman and been involved in the delivery of its road safety audit and casualty reduction guidelines and MfS II.

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