When McCormick Prof. Marcelo Worsley started teaching “Inclusive Making” in 2017, he wanted to increase technology access to the disability community.
LRN SCI 309 educates students on the historical exclusivity of creative design spaces and challenges them to construct final projects that facilitate greater access. Worsley said his past interactions with maker communities that excluded people with disabilities inspired him to create the course.
Worsley added that “making” entails combining digital and physical methods to produce a tangible object.
“Making is also about the power of big ideas, the power of letting people imagine, letting people create and bringing that together with the opportunities to actually instantiate those ideas,” Worsley said.
Letters to the editor: Senior falls statistics are sobering
9 Mar, 2021 08:00 PM
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The Bay of Plenty has a higher rate of seniors falling and being injured. Photo / Getty Images
The Bay of Plenty has a higher rate of seniors falling and being injured. Photo / Getty Images
Bay of Plenty Times For more than a decade I was involved with research concerning falls and hip fractures among older people in the School of Public Health, University of Auckland.
As a higher proportion of older people live in the Bay of Plenty (including myself), a higher fall rate and injury rate can be expected than other areas in New Zealand.