Inclusive Design Workshop
Learn to design inclusively today, ensure dignity, encouraging independence and creating awareness in your spaces.
Inclusive Design workshop
Accredited by SACAP and validated by GIfA For 1CPD Point (CAT 1)
COURSE CONTENT
Inclusive design is not merely about accommodating individuals with disabilities but about creating environments that are accessible, functional, and enjoyable for everyone.
This workshop offers a comprehensive exploration of universal design principles, focusing on diverse disabilities and their intersection with the built environment. By fostering an understanding of these dynamics, participants will be equipped to create inclusive, user-friendly spaces that enhance the quality of life for all individuals.
Grounded in insights from the World Health Organization, the course emphasizes the social model of disability, viewing it as an interaction between individuals and their environments.
The workshop also refers to an overview of the South African National Standards (SANS) 10400 Part S, which sets the framework for accessibility in building design.
COURSE INFO
CPD CREDITS AND CATEGORY |
1 X Category 1 CPD Credit |
DATE: |
30th July 2025 |
TIME AND VENUE: |
Online attendance: 8am-2pm (6hrs)
Lunch break: 1hr
Self-Study: 2hrs
Q&A and Assessment: 1hr
(Full Day Workshop)
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PRICING: |
R1165 (Early Bird - ends 29th July at 12pm) R1465 (Full Price) |
SAIA EC member's discount |
10% email [email protected] for your coupon |
COURSE DESCRIPTION
The built environment plays a critical role in shaping the experiences of individuals with disabilities. By integrating inclusive design principles, architects, planners, and developers can ensure spaces are safe, accessible, and equitable. This approach not only supports legal and ethical mandates but also fosters innovation and creativity in design.
Participants will leave this workshop equipped with practical strategies to identify and eliminate barriers in the built environment, fostering spaces that respect and celebrate diversity.
This interactive workshop incorporates a Q&A session and provides a CPD certificate of completion for attendees.
Workshop Reviews
Inclusive Design Workshop
Lori Kruger
Exellent & food for thought, wonderfull that elderly persons are also taken into consideration
Exellent & food for thought, wonderfull that elderly persons are also taken into consideration
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Christo Appel
This cause was very helpful. We will now be more informed of the need to design our Homes and Buildings for ALL in our Communities.
This cause was very helpful. We will now be more informed of the need to design our Homes and Buildings for ALL in our Communities.
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Leon Nigrini
Five star workshop!
Five star workshop!
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Theunis Van Eeden Coetzee
FIVE STAR
FIVE STAR
Read LessMeet your instructor
This instructor has achieved 5-star lecturer status
Professional Architect Arinda Swart
After graduating from the University of Port Elizabeth, BNM seconded her
to the OR Tambo region to head up the Port St Johns office in 2005. There she gained invaluable experience with rural public hospitals - the two most noteworthy being Holy Cross Hospital near Flagstaff and Madwaleni Hospital near Elliotdale. In 2010 she continued involvement with Madwaleni hospital and St George’s hospital but also taking on new healthcare projects, specifically as Healthplanner - on Kwanonkqubela Community Health Centre, Motherwell CHC and Meje CHC. She has also been asked to serve on review panels for other projects like Dihlabeng Hospital.As the mother of a disabled child, she has a special interest in universal design and a passion for designing for people with special needs.
Arinda is a registered professional architect with both SACAP and SAIA and plays an active role in the local charter - Eastern Cape. She is one of three Directors of the company Brinkman Ndayi McAll. At the age of 46 she combines youthful energy with experience.
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Africote
Workshop Sponsor
Africote originated in 1990 as Plastertech (PTY) LTD and was then responsible for the supply of 340 000m2 of internal and external cementitious colourful wall coatings used on the African Games Village, near Alexander Township in Johannesburg. It has also supplied cementitious coatings for various RDP housing projects throughout South Africa and also supplied finishing plaster to Monte Casino and the Liberty Life Building in Eastgate Office park, amongst many other prestigious projects.
