Mind the Gap
is for people & organisations who require inclusive design as a core design criteria
I am an inclusive design consultant with twenty years of lived everyday experience and leading collaborative live projects with inclusion and accessibility at their core. I work with:
Families with a disabled child who want to design their own lifetime accessible home.
Architects working with specialist clients on projects where inclusive design is a criteria.
Specialist clients who want an expert with understanding to frame and integrate the answers into the design process.
Forward thinking organisations who want strategies for our built environment that are inclusive and equitable.
Lived Everyday Family Experience
As an architectural designer with understanding of design processes, and 20 years of lived everyday experience of being a neurodivergent family with a wheelchair using child, I have developed a sensitivity to, and awareness of, the variety of ways in which the built environment …
Client & Architect Conduit
In order to achieve a truly equitable inclusive built environment, strategies need to be developed and put in place which prioritise this approach. My experience and expertise in inclusive thinking impacts policy and informs a cultural shift towards disabled people …
Inclusive Design Strategies
Mind the Gap advocates within the design process for the agency and inclusion of disabled people. Being aware of the importance of inclusive design right from the outset of a design process, means that I am able to ask the important questions …
Selected projects
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Garden Room
A small living space extension unlocked the whole house.
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Two bedrooms for teenagers
Designing in confined spaces, to make two beautifully articulated teenage bedrooms.
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House for a guitar player
Making space for the growing needs of the family, including an ever increasing guitar collection.
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Corian play room
Bespoke design, to enable a young person’s specific play style.
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The Rings holiday homes
Accessible holiday accommodation in rural Fife.
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Two Lifetime Homes
Two lifetime homes created from the conversion of a church hall.
