Symbol of Accessibility Redesign
UIA + RI Competition
[Logo Redesign]
Opportunity
The International Union of Architects and Rehabilitation International (RI) are jointly inviting submissions for a twenty-first century symbol of accessibility to represent their core values of rights and inclusion, independence, physical and virtual accessibility for all, including people with disabilities.
The competition invites professional architects and graphic designers as well as architectural and graphic design students to design a new graphic symbolof accessibility, to be proposed to the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) for adoption as the new international symbol of accessibility.
The challenge is therefore to develop a new symbol of accessibility that better represents the variety of people who use buildings and other types of built environments.
Solution
I began by exploring accessibility as an opening, an opening for ideas.
The cost of innaccessibility is limiting ideas and voices of those who need to be heard most.
The symbol abstracts the feeling of assembly, it's not our looks or physical attributes that resonate with others, but our shared ideas, feelings, and impact which we can confer in others.
