Some reflections and process on working with our Advisory Group on Design and Disability - “generative friction” and how we meet to create access and ideas. www.vam.ac.uk/blog/project...

So delighted to find out that our exhibition Design & Disability was chosen by @theguardian.com as one of The best of architecture and design in 2025, a nice end to the year. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Was a pleasure to be on Open City’s The Brief last week to talk RIBA vs ARB, Pete Murray’s run for Mayor and the concept of the ‘city architect’, Nnena Kalu’s Turner win and data centre design and their ecological impact shows.acast.com/601c017e2709...

Can every journalist’s 2026 resolution be to stop asking what disability disabled people have when interviewing them about their work, thanks.

Folks, our rubbish government have signed a £330 million government contract to sell our most sensitive healthcare data to Palantir, a company who have been exploiting vulnerable communities internationally - most recently working with ICE in the US. Take action! Write to your MP: tr.ee/4d82gg0BIN

In positive news, colleagues at @mctd.bsky.social with @bda.org.uk have published this excellent set of recommendations to warn against the unrelenting tide of AI services that don’t account for BSL’s rich culture and diversity, and the risk it has in initiatives not being Deaf-led.

There is a lot for disabled people to be enraged about. I partnered with artist Finnegan Shannon on #DisabledRage public art. All graphics are downloadable & feel free to share and wheatpaste all over your community disabilityvisibilityproject.com/disabled-rage/

A good way to deal with burnout? Trees, lots of trees.

Come by next Saturday if you are interested in crip authorship, including histories of subtitling, visual description and plain language writing workshop. Co-hosted with @center4ds.bsky.social

Really loved editing this book because we got great writers like @supercrip1994.bsky.social!

One last post before I rest for the weekend. Truly a bit overwhelmed to receive this review from a writer who I respect so much. Thanks @lucywebster.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Design and Disability opens today at the V&A! We’re so happy to share it with you all. Disabled, Deaf and neurodivergent people and their companions go free. www.vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/...

Calling all artists, creatives and cultural sector workers, there is an open letter about the changes to Access to Work which will be released on Monday, it’s been signed by almost 2000 people, please add your name if you can: airtable.com/appSbdVCnzZy...

Really nice to speak to Debika Ray for this piece on access and architecture, and about our upcoming show. Also features some amazing folks such as the Poppy Levison, Amanprit Arnold from Deaf City Hub, Chris Laing from Deaf Architecture Front and DisOrdinary Architecture.

📢 We've compiled a page of information on issues affecting Access to Work customers and new applicants, and details on how we can help. There are also actions you can take to fight the proposed changes to Access to Work. Read now and help #ProtectAtW disabilityarts.online/resources/gu...

Crip Authorship comes to the V&A! Pleased to host @maramills.bsky.social and Rebecca Sanchez on 21st June for a special event with @louhicky.bsky.social Kelsie Acton and Georgina Kleege. Tickets to the in person event and workshop here, online stream below: www.vam.ac.uk/event/135rMr...

I'm giving a new talk on *"Subtitles on Fire"* at the V&A for the Design and Disability show. Featuring a screening of *Captioning and Captioning* — celebrating all things crip authorship with @maramills.bsky.social and Rebecca Sanchez #DesignAndDisability www.vam.ac.uk/event/135rMr...

You think this is me being excited about the exhibition sign going up (I am!) but actually I was showing exactly where the large quantity of plane tree pollen was rushing in to attack me.

Day one of Design and Disability install and I’m impressed by the range of skills in our team, flower pressing by @musebloom.bsky.social is now a trade for hire. Also, early advance copies of our book are in the building!

📣 Join Our Team 📣 We're looking for a creative, dynamic individual to join us as Marketing and Communications Manager.⁠ This new role will help shape the Museum’s voice, connect with diverse audiences, and grow our reach and impact.⁠ 🗓 Deadline: 9am, Mon 2nd June 2025 thenvm.org/about/work-w...

I’ll be speaking with artists and designers from the Design and Disability show on 7th June at Great Exhibition Road festival - Kaiya Waerea, Finnegan Shannon and Arjun Harrison-Mann. Free! BSL interpreted, live captions, wear a mask! www.greatexhibitionroadfestival.co.uk/event/design...

It's 650 now. And darn right we have. Keep sharing and signing! tinyurl.com/4p7wktrn

Share widely!

I’m really pleased to announce a book to accompany the upcoming Design and Disability show - a series of great conversations, with a few essays, around disabled cultural production, experience and expertise with design uk.bookshop.org/p/books/desi...

I promised I'd do it, and here it is! You can now download the pdf of the zine "How to Archaeologically Record a Video Game" from itch: florencesmithnicholls.itch.io/how-to-archa...

Rumours were true! #BDCAM25

Sadly missed the first day of #BDCAM25 as I’m deep in exhibition preparation however I’ll be there tomorrow as Anna Mladentseva and I will be talking about our work conserving mobile apps!

I have been truly envious of Leontien Talboom’s digital preservation related knitted jumpers but now she’s released the charts, and more about their origins on Cambridge University Library Blogs #digitalpreservation digitalpreservation-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/knitting-thr...

“I can’t sleep, I’m so scared.” My report in tomorrow’s Guardian on the disability benefit cuts “domino effect”: losing PIP will see unpaid carers lose their benefits too - pulling away two main strands of a family’s income at once. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Now Play This 2025 has officially landed! Join us at Somerset House on 11 &12 April for two days of play all about Folk Games - the stories we create together! BOOK: www.somersethouse.org.uk/whats-on/now... @somersethouse @londongamesfest

How many curators are playing Two Point Museum at the moment, the ultimate busman’s holiday. I am enjoying that I am being rewarded by putting an extreme amount of seats everywhere.

My favourite things at the moment is denying the technology of emails (sorry) and knitting a neckerchief in two days.

Really thrilled to be joining The National Videogame Museum as a new Trustee! I can’t wait to start working together. @nvmuk.bsky.social @thebgi.bsky.social thebgi.uk/2025/03/24/t...

The Joy of being Disabled! This is rad. wellcomecollection.org/series/the-j...

I am so bad at social media these days unless it’s being extremely mad at our government on a certain image based platform, but for some reason I’ve had loads of new followers here. I’ve been really occupied working towards our show, Design and Disability, tickets were released earlier this month.

DOOM: The Gallery Experience - I have very little bandwidth for internet at the moment but I enjoyed how very silly this is, see you at the cheeeese wheeel bobatealee.itch.io/doom-the-gal...

Merry Christmas. Help feed Gaza if you're able: www.humantiproject.org/kitchens/

“Generative AI does not have the storytelling capabilities of disabled people. Those of us still alive are screaming our stories right now and have been, again, for decades. There is nothing for generative AI to “bring to life.” - @ashleemboyer.com ashleemboyer.com/blog/how-to-...

Disabled people’s organisations have made a plea to the government to listen to their “authentic” voices rather than disability charities that are not led by disabled people, which they say are “actively harmful” to their movement.

This is the greatest, there’s so many ways to read a map!

Frances Ryan once again has to do the heavy lifting on another journalist’s sensationalism around disabled people - I watched the Dispatches documentary yesterday and it was so stressful to see his shock at people asking each other for help when it’s a matter of life or death at a DWP appointment.

Partner has asked whether they spent the budget on a Mariah Cameo #latelatetoyshow

Download the full report as a PDF and explore the interactive map. ⬇️ www.common-wealth.org/publications...

Not new to many of us, but more reports on the devastating health impact companies like Amazon have on the welfare of its most marginalised workers, especially given its rubbish about inclusivity. Great work by @cmmonwealth.bsky.social reported in here. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

It's trans day of remembrance where we remember all of our siblings we've lost this year to violence and hate. We know we've lost at least 350 trans and nonbinary people have been murdered in the last year. We honor the dead and fight like hell for the living.

While we’re all here, I’d like to ask you to remember about Alt Text! Please add it to your images so folks can enjoy your pictures! Here’s one of my favourite projects by Finnegan Shannon & Bojana - Alt Text as Poetry alt-text-as-poetry.net (the tools section has resources on writing alt text too!)

Went and saw the real-fake food exhibition at The Japan House, and especially loved the use of them for food education (such as showing different stages that food goes bad), even though it set off my ‘scientific image standardisation history’ brain because what is the perfect egg gone bad!!

A quick re-introduction. I’ve been a bit quiet on social media except on Instagram; I’m Nat, and the last few years I’ve been mostly working on collecting and researching complex digital objects and on a show on Design and Disability which opens at the V&A June 2025. www.vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/...

Today marks the beginning of UK Disability History Month💥 For us, this is an opportunity to look back on our long struggle for autonomy, against paternalism and pity. How could we not start with the Disabled People's Direct Action Network (DAN)?

V pleased to be working on this with such a good team!!