It will inform architects, educators, and policy makers about students with disabilities’ spatial requirements and develop strategies and tools to support the co-design of facilities with people with lived experience of disability. The outcomes will include an inclusive learning spaces design framework. This will ultimately benefit all students’ access and meaningful involvement in learning through the development of more inclusive learning spaces. The research will help integrate understood, yet often separated knowledge, from architecture, education and health.

The project has received seed funding from the Melbourne Disability Institute to partner with people with lived experience of disability and to write a submission for an Australian Research Council Linkage Project Grant.