In this video, architects and teachers Joshua Waterstone and Martin Marker speak about working with the senses as a way to explore accessibility in architecture.

The project they named "Hephaistos" explores inclusion design through the different senses - how smelling architecture, touching it, and hearing it opens up new ways of accessibility, like the pavilion in the video where the smell of wood becomes a way to sense the space.

"Hephaistos" has been part of a bachelor program at the Royal Danish Academy of Architecture in Copenhagen, DK, made in collaboration with first-year students from the Institute of Architecture, Urbanism and Landscape and SUMH - The Danish Association of Youth with Disabilities and Bevica Fonden, IKEA, Spacon & X, and Dinesen.

The pavilions were at first a part of The H22 City Expo in Helsingborg Sweden, and now one of them shown in the video is displayed at the exhibition ADFÆRD / VELFÆRD at the Royal Danish Academy.

Want to know more? Visit The Royal Danish Academy's website.

Concerning the designation of Copenhagen as The World Capital of Architecture 2023, the UIA- World Congress of Architects will be held in Copenhagen from 02 to 06 July.
This video is part of a series of videos featuring various speakers and participants contributing to the congress. The series is part of a collaboration between Arka and UIA - World Congress of Architects 2023.

Joshua Waterstone and Martin Marker joined the congress with the paper "Hephaistos: A Phenomenological Approach to Inclusive Design."

Want to know more? Visit UIA's program.