Natalie D Kane

Some reflections and process on working with our Advisory Group on Design and Disability - “generative friction” and how we meet to create access and ideas. www.vam.ac.uk/blog/project...

So delighted to find out that our exhibition Design & Disability was chosen by @theguardian.com as one of The best of architecture and design in 2025, a nice end to the year. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Was a pleasure to be on Open City’s The Brief last week to talk RIBA vs ARB, Pete Murray’s run for Mayor and the concept of the ‘city architect’, Nnena Kalu’s Turner win and data centre design and their ecological impact shows.acast.com/601c017e2709...

In positive news, colleagues at @mctd.bsky.social with @bda.org.uk have published this excellent set of recommendations to warn against the unrelenting tide of AI services that don’t account for BSL’s rich culture and diversity, and the risk it has in initiatives not being Deaf-led.

There is a lot for disabled people to be enraged about. I partnered with artist Finnegan Shannon on #DisabledRage public art. All graphics are downloadable & feel free to share and wheatpaste all over your community disabilityvisibilityproject.com/disabled-rage/

A good way to deal with burnout? Trees, lots of trees.

Come by next Saturday if you are interested in crip authorship, including histories of subtitling, visual description and plain language writing workshop. Co-hosted with @center4ds.bsky.social

Really loved editing this book because we got great writers like @supercrip1994.bsky.social!

One last post before I rest for the weekend. Truly a bit overwhelmed to receive this review from a writer who I respect so much. Thanks @lucywebster.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Design and Disability opens today at the V&A! We’re so happy to share it with you all. Disabled, Deaf and neurodivergent people and their companions go free. www.vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/...

Calling all artists, creatives and cultural sector workers, there is an open letter about the changes to Access to Work which will be released on Monday, it’s been signed by almost 2000 people, please add your name if you can: airtable.com/appSbdVCnzZy...

Really nice to speak to Debika Ray for this piece on access and architecture, and about our upcoming show. Also features some amazing folks such as the Poppy Levison, Amanprit Arnold from Deaf City Hub, Chris Laing from Deaf Architecture Front and DisOrdinary Architecture.

📢 We've compiled a page of information on issues affecting Access to Work customers and new applicants, and details on how we can help. There are also actions you can take to fight the proposed changes to Access to Work. Read now and help #ProtectAtW disabilityarts.online/resources/gu...

I'm giving a new talk on *"Subtitles on Fire"* at the V&A for the Design and Disability show. Featuring a screening of *Captioning and Captioning* — celebrating all things crip authorship with @maramills.bsky.social and Rebecca Sanchez #DesignAndDisability www.vam.ac.uk/event/135rMr...

You think this is me being excited about the exhibition sign going up (I am!) but actually I was showing exactly where the large quantity of plane tree pollen was rushing in to attack me.

Day one of Design and Disability install and I’m impressed by the range of skills in our team, flower pressing by @musebloom.bsky.social is now a trade for hire. Also, early advance copies of our book are in the building!

📣 Join Our Team 📣 We're looking for a creative, dynamic individual to join us as Marketing and Communications Manager.⁠ This new role will help shape the Museum’s voice, connect with diverse audiences, and grow our reach and impact.⁠ 🗓 Deadline: 9am, Mon 2nd June 2025 thenvm.org/about/work-w...

It's 650 now. And darn right we have. Keep sharing and signing! tinyurl.com/4p7wktrn

Share widely!

I’m really pleased to announce a book to accompany the upcoming Design and Disability show - a series of great conversations, with a few essays, around disabled cultural production, experience and expertise with design uk.bookshop.org/p/books/desi...

I promised I'd do it, and here it is! You can now download the pdf of the zine "How to Archaeologically Record a Video Game" from itch: florencesmithnicholls.itch.io/how-to-archa...

Rumours were true! #BDCAM25

I have been truly envious of Leontien Talboom’s digital preservation related knitted jumpers but now she’s released the charts, and more about their origins on Cambridge University Library Blogs #digitalpreservation digitalpreservation-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/knitting-thr...

“I can’t sleep, I’m so scared.” My report in tomorrow’s Guardian on the disability benefit cuts “domino effect”: losing PIP will see unpaid carers lose their benefits too - pulling away two main strands of a family’s income at once. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Now Play This 2025 has officially landed! Join us at Somerset House on 11 &12 April for two days of play all about Folk Games - the stories we create together! BOOK: www.somersethouse.org.uk/whats-on/now... @somersethouse @londongamesfest

How many curators are playing Two Point Museum at the moment, the ultimate busman’s holiday. I am enjoying that I am being rewarded by putting an extreme amount of seats everywhere.

My favourite things at the moment is denying the technology of emails (sorry) and knitting a neckerchief in two days.

Really thrilled to be joining The National Videogame Museum as a new Trustee! I can’t wait to start working together. @nvmuk.bsky.social @thebgi.bsky.social thebgi.uk/2025/03/24/t...

Merry Christmas. Help feed Gaza if you're able: www.humantiproject.org/kitchens/

“Generative AI does not have the storytelling capabilities of disabled people. Those of us still alive are screaming our stories right now and have been, again, for decades. There is nothing for generative AI to “bring to life.” - @ashleemboyer.com ashleemboyer.com/blog/how-to-...

Disabled people’s organisations have made a plea to the government to listen to their “authentic” voices rather than disability charities that are not led by disabled people, which they say are “actively harmful” to their movement.

This is the greatest, there’s so many ways to read a map!

Frances Ryan once again has to do the heavy lifting on another journalist’s sensationalism around disabled people - I watched the Dispatches documentary yesterday and it was so stressful to see his shock at people asking each other for help when it’s a matter of life or death at a DWP appointment.