Workshops
- First workshop:
- Urbanism:
- Which experiences and which ambitions for accessible cities?
- How to revitalize town centres by integrating accessibility?
- Which strategies of public/private partnerships for accessible living spaces?
- How to manage diversity?
- Rethink signposts and urban organisation.
- Working areas and services:
- Which new approach on accessibility?
- Improvements in public and private utilities, new progress in infrastructure: city halls, schools, offices, post offices, banks, shopping areas.
- Office organisation: simultaneous accessibility of working spaces and meeting areas for employees and visitors (customers, suppliers, …).
- New online services.
- Residential:
- Which experiences and which actions for a better accessibility in new and existing residential buildings?
- How to set up an effective dialogue with the occupants?
- Which solutions for a trans-generational accessibility?
- Labels for an accessibility identification.
- To widen implementation and democratization, which innovations and measurement tools to achieve better accessibility?
- New developments in control, command and information systems.
- Second workshop:
- Access to railway stations and transit places:
- Which access arrangements, which environment to improve customer services?
- How to facilitate access to terminals, boarding desks, and transit halls?
- To improve public transport interconnectivity.
- To develop specific signposts for each disability.
- To improve user comfort, for handicapped, disabled and elderly persons.
- Air and Rail transportation:
- Which developments and achievements for air and rail transport?
- Access improvements to vehicles, baggage and seats.
- Signposts developments, services facilities for handicapped or elderly people.
- Practical and specific training.
- Urban and car transportation:
- Which adjustments, which achievements and which experiments in individual or collective transport?
- More specifically in buses, trams and subways, taxis and cars, access improvements to seats and other equipments.
- Signposts developments, services facilities for handicapped or elderly people.
- Use of new technologies.
- Third workshop:
- Culture:
- How to erase architectural barriers and facilitate access in historical monuments?
- Make cultural sites more accessible, such as museums, culture houses, theatres, cinemas, concert halls and music academies…
- The access to sites and works: how to locate them, to reach them, to move around within them ?
- From new technologies to new practices.
- Tourism:
- New information and communication systems and tools in terms of accessibility.
- Leisure sites: Investments optimized for lasting user loyalty.
- Hosting sites: new offers of services and equipments to meet many different needs.
- Cafes and restaurants: Which investments to increase attractivity?
- Sport:
- Design and innovation for sport institutions or centres for better accessibility.
- Sites access for spectators as well as athletes (in stadiums, swimming pools, and other sport centres).
- Olympics games impacts and sport communication to promote new attitudes.