2015/16 PRIZE "DISABILITY AND ACCESSIBILITY. SERVICES" - Submitted works

The 5 multisensorial totems are written in braille, produce some sound, have three dimensional surfaces, and reproduce natural shapes; they are palced next to the access of workshops in order to help students with different abilities to orienteer in their school space when they have to change classr...

LOVE KNOWS NO BOUNDARIES - CLASS V DC
During their life, a disabled person has to endure and overcome many difficulties, such as proposing to the one you love, getting on a bus, going from one apartment floor to another, and so on …
Only with the right help and understanding from the people near a...

For this competition we have thought of representing disability through images. We have imagined to be disabled, illustrating a typical school day, basic service for the development of young people, showing the obstacles and limits which one encounters to arrive to school and to develop activities. ...

A little fellow comes close to  a large gorge looking for an idea about how to cross it, while on the other side a disabled person on a wheel chiar, without asking too many questions, parachutes himself across. Simple! Following the brave example, the little fellow as well manages to overcome the hu...

For the Eleanor Worthington competition we have made a tridimensional piece of work using several materials, such as clay, acrylic and plywood, in order to symbolically represent the difficulty faced by  disabled people in a  usual routine, where an “obstacle “ which is insignificant for an ordinary...

I have been inspired by the “Pro Infirmis” campaign, which has used dummies with physical faults; my story of a dummy without limbs is in honour of Nick Vujicic, a man who was borne as a phocomelic who lives an ordinary life. Mine wants to be a tribute and a lesson for a better and more welcoming so...

With a minimal, ironic and immediate language the video expresses the difficulties due to carelessness, indifference and  arrogance, with which often both people and institutions think about and believe to solve problems of deambulation and of social participation of disabled persons.
 
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For the competition I have decided to film my friend Manuel. Four years ago he had an accident, as the result of which he cannot walk properly, but, despite everything, every day he is stronger. Together we have wanted to point out the lack of services for disabled people, creating a video with phot...

This project  has been implemented with clay, brambles and wrought iron. Some people are trapped inside the brambles and the only way to free them is to cut the branches, i.e. helping them to overcome all the obstacles and the limitations which every day oppress them.
One  does not realize how pain...

I have started from my brother’s visual defect; I have concluded that to reflect on individual needs must be the base for every service, especially public ones; in this way the concepts of accessibility and disability would disappear, putting us all at the same level, because each of us is unique.
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You can access..and me, who is disabled? We have tried to identify ourselves with disabled people: we have looked around our town  for the first time with different eyes, and we have realized that had we been in a wheel chair, we could have accessed many services, but  not other ones! Why? It is not...

With this photograph I have wanted to tell about the dream of an old man with mobility difficulties. The man is asleep abandoned in a wheel chair at the bottom of a staircase.
An indefinite female figure appears to detach herself from him and to walk climbing the stairs with simplicity. The figure...

There is no creativity in this project, but I have wanted to proprose again this video, as I am convinced that, however important it is to remove architechtural barriers, it is even more important that each of us first works on the mental barriers in our own head.

Should society and each of us take care of  other persons by carrying them “in their arms” and by “becoming chair” to one’s needs, no service would be UNACCESSIBLE.
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In a paradoxical and visionary way this image wants to point out the difficulties which persons with disabilies come across to access places of culture and of leisure, despite the committment and the efforts already implemented by our society to protect their rights. As real acrobats, disabled peopl...

The society of able bodied people is generally rather indifferent, looks at and goes beyond, to the difficulties of those who have fewer instruments to overcome them. Mine is an appeal to the conscience of human beings who as such have the duty to help each other,
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This is a path where one can play and simulate a situation of difficulty with some marbles which represent the individuals facing obstacles. Steps and tops are some of the impediments to reach beauty and knowledge represented by the museum, place of knowledge which fights the ignorance which too oft...

A board game to teach children the problems still open and the targets already achieved with respect to accessibility of people with different abilities at school. An OK path to go to school, cast in the traditional goose board game. 
Sheet of cm 100x70, folded and kept in a box of cm 4x38x28 with...

A heap of letters on top of which there is a prison. Within it there is a blind person. Around the disabled person a large black cloud is incumbent, to switch off what for him is already switched off. Culture is less and less accessible for people without eyesight. Under the prison there is a sculpt...

What makes a character into a superhero? The fact that he can walk and run? And if because of an accident this character ended up in a wheel chair? Would he still be a superhero?