NOT JUST INCLUDED—EMBEDDED

2025 // SHORT FILM COMPETITION ENTRY // [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.

I hope you’ll consider voting for the film, here. Unfortunately, the voting site is in Danish and English, so I have made a translation to help you cast your vote here.

The film was made for a competition by Copenhagen Architecture Festival and Danish Arts: Uhørte Stemmer [Unheard Voices], asking for who are not heard in the urban environment. At first, I noticed that the name of the competition by using an old trove, actually excludes those that don’t speak at all. My film is focusing on how disabled people need to be not just included—embedded within all aspects of architectural practice if we are to have a city for all. 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 check-list, 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

Read the voice-over poem below and see stills taken during the filming.