NOT INCLUDED—EMBEDDED 未納入—嵌其中

2025 // SHORT FILM // [TW] // TO BE PUBLISHED BY BRINK LITERARY JOURNAL SPRING 2026

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 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.

The film was shown as part of Art Weekend Budapest by Colourful Noise, fall 2025.
The film was selected for the Rest Fest Disability Film Festival, spring 2026.

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透過我的自閉式感知，我正在探索台灣台北的非正式建築，並將其視為一種「自閉式建築方法（Autistic Architectural Approach）」的展現——這種方法主張，身心障礙者不應只是被「納入（included）」，而是被「嵌入（embedded）」其中。

這部影像作品呈現了：當每一個人的空間聲音都被嵌入於台北之中時，城市如何因為是由所有人共同生成，而顯得開放。這也引出了另一個問題：如果身心障礙不只是被「納入」，而是被嵌入於建築實踐的各個層面之中，城市又會變成什麼樣子？建築往往將身心障礙簡化為「完成後再附加的物理可及性問題」：加一個坡道、放寛一扇門、設置一間無障礙廁所，然後就算完成了。我不相信將身心障礙視為一份清單，而是將其視為一種必須被嵌入的實踐。而這一切始於對身心障礙的開放——向身心障礙學生、講者與教授開放建築學校； 向身心障礙建築師開放建築事務所；敞開我們的心去理解：借用 Eli Clare 的說法，我們所有人，充其量都只是「暫時的健全者」。