An architect from Mumbai is trying to bridge the gap between cultural art and the differently-abled.
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00:18How much is the tea?
00:19One tea please.
00:51Our aim through Access for All is of two things.
01:15One is to give them the experience of what you and me feel, right?
01:19What all other kids feel.
01:21And the second thing is about giving them the right tools to do it.
01:24You can't tell a person, okay, take this and play with this.
01:27You have to change.
01:28You have to design.
01:29You have to ideate.
01:30There has to be deep creative thinking that goes into the fact that how can this game
01:34make an impact in their life, right?
01:37What can they learn even from the simple game of snakes and ladder?
01:39What can they learn from the simple game of X and Zero?
01:53My mother's visual impairment was kept hidden in the family.
01:56Never spoken in our family.
01:57It was seen like a, it was things under the cover.
02:15Started making me more eager and started getting me to think about what all can I do
02:20in our country and how very simply my mother could also be a part of it, like be part of
02:24all our travels and not just sit in one place.
02:36We had our setbacks.
02:38We had different experiences through which we learned that became a textbook of understanding
02:43different things of learning.
02:45How do you talk about a certain artwork to a group with visual impairment?
02:49How do you talk about a certain color to people with colorblindness?
02:53How do you talk about form, textures, making it more relevant to them?
02:57How descriptive you were.
03:23In our team, we have three people, two with visual impairment and one with hearing impairment,
03:33but that they give us their input.
03:43The expertise that we have developed, we can share with them because I feel those economies
03:47also have similar issues like us reaching out to our neighbors, which reaching out to
03:53other countries and be more accessible and put our hands together to make access beyond
03:58borders.