Purple pounds: Designing for the deaf and disabled

Hello, and welcome to The Developer Podcast where we talk about how to make cities worth living in, which often has to do with the spaces between the buildings as much as the buildings themselves. My name is Christine Murray, Editor in Chief of The Developer and Director of The Festival of Place. Designing inclusive cities often means considering our blind spots. But what about our deaf spots? How can we consider the impact of the built environment on deaf people in the city? Ammanprith is an experienced deaf city strategist with a focus on inclusive design, disability inclusion and social impact. Born deaf and having discovered her strong deaf identity in her teens, Amunprith is the founder of Deaf City Hub, vice chair of SignHealth and former co chair of the Greater London Authority Disability Network. Thank you Christine for having me here today and the opportunity to tell you more about me, my practice, my thinking. So my name is Amundrecht Arnold. I am profoundly GAR, born GAR, the BSR user, had grown up in the GAR community, but came into the bot environment sector sector when in my first job at RITF and being in the boat environment sector for the past fifteen years. So I know you've, talked about your experience from the start of your career, you know, beginning at Rick's. You went on to work at ULI, you know, and now you've moved on to start your own consultancy. Tell me a little bit about your professional journey and, and where you're kind of arriving now. Okay. Great. And I'll try and summarize it, quite quickly. So I started my career at the Royal Institution Chartered Bay at for about five years delivering global urban research project and, global academic competencies for WAI and did a lot of urban travel. I moved to urban land institution, ULI, for about five years, doing delivering research in Europe as well as looking to grow the European advisory services in Europe. What that means is there were opportunities where I was able to go to different cities around the world and bring the best urban experts in different fields together for one week to tackle an urban development or land due challenge. So that was really fascinating because every city different, everybody had a different professional background, everybody had a different perspective on what makes a city or place work. At the same time, doing a lot of research and thought leadership on urban issues in the sector and what were coming from America and working with our European partners. But in Europe, I think at that time, I'm not sure about now, most of our members were European real estate investors and developers. So for them, it was about what was interesting for them, what trend, what sector to invest. Then I moved to the public sector working for GNA, Greater London Authority for the mayor of London. And, it I actually really love that transition …