NOT JUST INCLUDED—EMBEDDED

2025 // SHORT FILM // [TW]

Through my Autistic perception, I’m exploring the informal architectures of Taipei, Taiwan, seeing them as a representation of an Autistic Architectural Approach, which calls for disabled people to be—not just included—embedded.

The film is showing how the embedded nature of everybody’s spatial voice in Taipei leads to a city that feels open as it is produced by all, leading to the question of what would happen if disability too was not just included—embedded within all aspects of architectural practice. Architecture tends to reduce disability to physical access as an add-on to the finished project, add a ramp, widen a door, include an ADA bathroom, and done. I don’t believe in disability as a checklist, but as an embedded practice, but this starts with opening towards disability;
open the architecture schools to disabled students, lectures, professors
open the offices to hire disabled architects
open your hearts to understand that, paraphrasing Eli Clare, we are all at best temporarily abled-bodied

The poem and stills from the filming are below.