Redesigning Disabled Spaces
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Dipali Shirsat is founder of The Visual Poetry, a lighting design practice based in Dubai, U.A.E. Dipali is an artist by nature with a background in Architecture & specialization in Lighting Design from KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden.
Passionate about light & lighting design, her ongoing research titled ‘The Usual Sense’ focuses on the non-visual sense and developing lighting practices with an inclusive design approach. The research was presented at the Digital Led Professional Symposium 2020 and shortlisted for the S.L.L Young Lighter 2020 award. The research article was featured in ILP Journal where she co-authored the article with David Gilbey.
Dipali was featured recently in ARC magazine for her research on Multisensory Design. She recently won the Silhouette Awards in 2022 which recognizes top young lighting designers among the industry.
Dipali is an affiliate member of the CIBSE, UK and licensed Architect at C.O.A, India.
Blog-writer for Women in Lighting R.A.W Series and a core member of The Lighting Police Project; Dipali is always open to collaborating with creative minds.
Social Inclusion is a multi-layered idea with diverse needs. While we see current design practices starting to have more awareness and open conversations on this topic, as lighting designers we haven’t reflected enough on inclusive strategies that would support the changing built environment.
In this presentation, we will take a wider and deeper look into what does inclusion really mean? The research conducted on lighting for visual impairment will be presented, which will serve as a basis to further opening the discussion on how lighting can play a crucial role in supporting inclusive design principles and how this will probably have an impact on the future of design.