Empowering disabled people with digital
fabrication : insights from the In the Making
Project - submission to All Party Parliamentary Group on Disability

Taylor, N; Hurley, UK

Abstract

In this report, based on the findings of the AHRC-funded In the Making project, we offer evidence that digital fabrication can support the government in closing the disability employment gap in the following ways:


• Digital fabrication technologies and facilities offer opportunities to create skills amongst the disabled community that might support them in finding work or in
becoming entrepreneurs.


• Engaging in digital fabrication has major inclusion and wellbeing benefits for disabled people that can also support them in joining the workforce.


• Digital fabrication can also support disabled people in creating or modifying their own assistive technologies, which can further support them in playing a productive
role in society.

Citation

Project - submission to All Party Parliamentary Group on Disability

• Other Type: Other
• Deposit Date: Sep 14, 2016
• Publicly Available Date: Sep 14, 2016
• Related Public URLs: http://disabilityactionalliance.org.uk/appg-invites-submissions-on-halving-the-disability-employment-gap/; http://www.inthemaking.org.uk; http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/projects?ref=AH/M006026/1; http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmallparty/register/disability.htm
• Additional Information: Additional Information : The item was submitted by the researchers as evidence to the Parliamentary Group - it has no official publisher.; Projects : In the Making