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Natalie D Kane @ndkane.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

So delighted to find out that our exhibition Design & Disability was chosen by @theguardian.com as one of The best of architecture and design in 2025, a nice end to the year. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

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The best design and architecture of 2025

This year’s highlights include the remodelling of a Richard Seifert brutalist ‘corncob’ tower, a celebration of Japanese carpentry and a wearable hot-water bottle

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Natalie D Kane @ndkane.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Was a pleasure to be on Open City’s The Brief last week to talk RIBA vs ARB, Pete Murray’s run for Mayor and the concept of the ‘city architect’, Nnena Kalu’s Turner win and data centre design and their ecological impact shows.acast.com/601c017e2709...

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RIBA vs ARB, Nnena Kalu's Turner Prize win and data centre design | Open City

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Natalie D Kane @ndkane.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Apparently many of you failed this year!!

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Natalie D Kane @ndkane.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Can every journalist’s 2026 resolution be to stop asking what disability disabled people have when interviewing them about their work, thanks.

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Natalie D Kane @ndkane.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Folks, our rubbish government have signed a £330 million government contract to sell our most sensitive healthcare data to Palantir, a company who have been exploiting vulnerable communities internationally - most recently working with ICE in the US. Take action! Write to your MP: tr.ee/4d82gg0BIN

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No Palantir in the NHS - Cam | Instagram | Linktree

Cambridge and Central East England working group against Palantir in the NHS. Join us!

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Natalie D Kane @ndkane.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Thank you, very nice of you to say!

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Natalie D Kane @ndkane.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

In positive news, colleagues at @mctd.bsky.social with @bda.org.uk have published this excellent set of recommendations to warn against the unrelenting tide of AI services that don’t account for BSL’s rich culture and diversity, and the risk it has in initiatives not being Deaf-led.

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Alice Wong @sfdirewolf.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

There is a lot for disabled people to be enraged about. I partnered with artist Finnegan Shannon on #DisabledRage public art. All graphics are downloadable & feel free to share and wheatpaste all over your community disabilityvisibilityproject.com/disabled-rage/

Graphic by Finnegan Shannon with a white background and black text. Below is a QR code and hashtag #DisabledRage. Text reads, RAGE WITH US

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Natalie D Kane @ndkane.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

A good way to deal with burnout? Trees, lots of trees.

A park with a tree to the left, underneath a baby deer shelters in shadow.

A lush green forest, densely covered in trees, a path running through the middle.

A very large green oak in a park, the grass bleached by the sun. To the left a small lake.

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Louise Hickman @louhicky.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Come by next Saturday if you are interested in crip authorship, including histories of subtitling, visual description and plain language writing workshop. Co-hosted with @center4ds.bsky.social

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Natalie D Kane @ndkane.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Really loved editing this book because we got great writers like @supercrip1994.bsky.social!

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Natalie D Kane @ndkane.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Pal this is very nice to say - thank you so much for being on the advisory group and sharing your wisdom!

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Natalie D Kane @ndkane.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Design and Disability opens today at the V&A! We’re so happy to share it with you all. Disabled, Deaf and neurodivergent people and their companions go free. www.vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/...

A row of brightly coloured posters against a white tiled wall. The posters say ‘Design and Disability’ on each left hand bottom corner. On the left lime green poster, a photo of Davina Starr, a member of drag syndrome in a white wig and bright make up under a spotlight. The central light blue poster has a black and white photo of Marvel Harris wrapped in a towel emerging from the sea. The right pink poster is an image of Sky Cubacub in a pink binder and dragon scale headdress.

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Touretteshero @touretteshero.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Calling all artists, creatives and cultural sector workers, there is an open letter about the changes to Access to Work which will be released on Monday, it’s been signed by almost 2000 people, please add your name if you can: airtable.com/appSbdVCnzZy...

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Airtable | Everyone's app platform

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Natalie D Kane @ndkane.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Really nice to speak to Debika Ray for this piece on access and architecture, and about our upcoming show. Also features some amazing folks such as the Poppy Levison, Amanprit Arnold from Deaf City Hub, Chris Laing from Deaf Architecture Front and DisOrdinary Architecture.

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Disability Arts Online @disabilityarts.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

📢 We've compiled a page of information on issues affecting Access to Work customers and new applicants, and details on how we can help. There are also actions you can take to fight the proposed changes to Access to Work. Read now and help #ProtectAtW disabilityarts.online/resources/gu...

A blue background with a yellow box that contains blue text that reads: How can you fight against the changes to access to work. Below is a teal box containing white text that reads: 1. Find out more about the changes on our website. 2. Sign and share the open letter from the culture sector. 3 Include the hashtag #ProtectAtW when posting on social media. 4. Write to your MP using our template letter. 5. Respond to the current DWP consultation.
Below is #ProtectAtW written in yellow and the DAO and Cathy Waller Co logos.

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Natalie D Kane @ndkane.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Crip Authorship event online - please note that the workshop won’t be hybrid but all talks and Georgina Kleege’s keynote will be hybrid! www.vam.ac.uk/event/jEdBnK...

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Crip Authorship: Disability as a Method for Creativity (Online) - Special event at Online · V&A

An afternoon of talks, a screening, and a workshop exploring disability, authorship, and access.

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Natalie D Kane @ndkane.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Crip Authorship comes to the V&A! Pleased to host @maramills.bsky.social and Rebecca Sanchez on 21st June for a special event with @louhicky.bsky.social Kelsie Acton and Georgina Kleege. Tickets to the in person event and workshop here, online stream below: www.vam.ac.uk/event/135rMr...

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Crip Authorship: Disability as a Method for Creativity - Special event at V&A South Kensington · V&A

An afternoon of talks, a screening, and a workshop exploring disability, authorship, and access.

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Louise Hickman @louhicky.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

I'm giving a new talk on *"Subtitles on Fire"* at the V&A for the Design and Disability show. Featuring a screening of *Captioning and Captioning* — celebrating all things crip authorship with @maramills.bsky.social and Rebecca Sanchez #DesignAndDisability www.vam.ac.uk/event/135rMr...

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Crip Authorship: Disability as a Method for Creativity - Special event at V&A South Kensington · V&A

An afternoon of talks, a screening, and a workshop exploring disability, authorship, and access.

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Natalie D Kane @ndkane.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

You think this is me being excited about the exhibition sign going up (I am!) but actually I was showing exactly where the large quantity of plane tree pollen was rushing in to attack me.

A large wooden sign hangs between two pale marble columns above two closed black doors. On the sign reads in fuschia pink ‘Design and disability’.

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Natalie D Kane @ndkane.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Day one of Design and Disability install and I’m impressed by the range of skills in our team, flower pressing by @musebloom.bsky.social is now a trade for hire. Also, early advance copies of our book are in the building!

A book stacked on top of another on a table. The book cover is predominantly white. In the top right hand corner is the main title text in bold sans serif black font, reading Design and Disability. At the bottom left it reads in capitals, 10 Tales of Accessible Design. Across the front cover on a white background, from left to right is a series of long stripes of differing widths that go from top to bottom that go from each edge, with staggered gaps in between. They are in a colour spectrum starting from turquoise, to blue, to mauve, to purple to pink.

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The National Videogame Museum @nvmuk.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

📣 Join Our Team 📣 We're looking for a creative, dynamic individual to join us as Marketing and Communications Manager.⁠ This new role will help shape the Museum’s voice, connect with diverse audiences, and grow our reach and impact.⁠ 🗓 Deadline: 9am, Mon 2nd June 2025 thenvm.org/about/work-w...

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Natalie D Kane @ndkane.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

It’s also the opening day for the show so come celebrate and say hello, sit on one of the many chairs (I may be taking several naps).

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Natalie D Kane @ndkane.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

I’ll be speaking with artists and designers from the Design and Disability show on 7th June at Great Exhibition Road festival - Kaiya Waerea, Finnegan Shannon and Arjun Harrison-Mann. Free! BSL interpreted, live captions, wear a mask! www.greatexhibitionroadfestival.co.uk/event/design...

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Design and Disability - The Great Exhibition Road Festival

Join the curator of the V&A's new ‘Design and Disability’ exhibition to explore how disabled people are hacking, redesigning and subverting design.

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Natalie D Kane @ndkane.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

I’m really pleased to announce a book to accompany the upcoming Design and Disability show - a series of great conversations, with a few essays, around disabled cultural production, experience and expertise with design uk.bookshop.org/p/books/desi...

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Design and Disability: 10 Tales of Accessible Design a book by Natalie Kane and Reuben Liebeskind.

This visually rich book celebrates design ingenuity - acknowledging the significant contributions of disabled individuals and communities to design and making that point that, simply put, inclusive de...

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Dr Florence Smith Nicholls @florencesn.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

I promised I'd do it, and here it is! You can now download the pdf of the zine "How to Archaeologically Record a Video Game" from itch: florencesmithnicholls.itch.io/how-to-archa...

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How to Archaeologically Record a Video Game by Florence Smith Nicholls

A zine specially grown for GDC 2025

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Natalie D Kane @ndkane.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

We’ll be focusing on the recent acquisition of Euki, a privacy-first reproductive health app which was brought into the collection in 2023 for Rapid Response Collecting, at the point that Roe Vs Wade was first threatened to be overturned.

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Natalie D Kane @ndkane.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Sadly missed the first day of #BDCAM25 as I’m deep in exhibition preparation however I’ll be there tomorrow as Anna Mladentseva and I will be talking about our work conserving mobile apps!

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Natalie D Kane @ndkane.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

I have been truly envious of Leontien Talboom’s digital preservation related knitted jumpers but now she’s released the charts, and more about their origins on Cambridge University Library Blogs #digitalpreservation digitalpreservation-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/knitting-thr...

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Knitting Through Digital Decay: A Collection of Digital Preservation Jumpers No One Asked For (But…

I’ve been truly overwhelmed by the interest in my Digital Preservation knitting patterns — thank you to everyone who has reached out…

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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

“I can’t sleep, I’m so scared.” My report in tomorrow’s Guardian on the disability benefit cuts “domino effect”: losing PIP will see unpaid carers lose their benefits too - pulling away two main strands of a family’s income at once. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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‘I can’t sleep, I’m so scared’: disabled people face benefit cuts domino effect

Three people tell how knock-on impact of losing Pip on carer’s allowance and other benefits will affect their families

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Now Play This @nowplaythis.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Now Play This 2025 has officially landed! Join us at Somerset House on 11 &12 April for two days of play all about Folk Games - the stories we create together! BOOK: www.somersethouse.org.uk/whats-on/now... @somersethouse @londongamesfest

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Natalie D Kane @ndkane.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

How many curators are playing Two Point Museum at the moment, the ultimate busman’s holiday. I am enjoying that I am being rewarded by putting an extreme amount of seats everywhere.

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Natalie D Kane @ndkane.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Do not be silly we are all in this together ❤️

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