The Curb Cut Effect: A Podcast

Hosted by Calvin Van Zytveld, Accessibility Consultant

More Canvas Consulting in collaboration with Curb Cut Analytics is pleased to announce the launch of a new podcast: Curb Cut Effect, dedicated to cross-disciplinary discourse on innovation and resilience in the face of disability. In keeping with its namesake, these opening episodes of the podcast explore creative insights that the disability community and its allies have to offer to everyone, disabled or otherwise. 

The Curb Cut Effect is a phenomenon in which accommodations or laws designed to ease challenges faced by a vulnerable group ultimately benefit a larger swath of society. The term was coined by Angela Glover Blackwell in her piece titled “The Curb Cut Effect” in the Winter 2017 Stanford Social Innovation Review. In it, Blackwell recalls how curbs that were “cut” so those in wheelchairs could cross streets independently ended up offering greater convenience to people of all abilities who are walking, biking, and pushing strollers. As she puts it: “When the wall of exclusion came down, everybody benefited—not only people in wheelchairs.”

At More Canvas, we’re always interested in understanding how individuals and organizations face challenges and then innovate to solve them.

Featuring interviews on varied topics with a wide array of expert guests, the show is hosted by More Canvas’ Accessibility Consultant Calvin Van Zytveld and produced by Story Specialist Victoria Gruenberg. 

References:
Blackwell, Angela Glover. “The Curb-Cut Effect.” Stanford Social Innovation Review 15, no. 1 (2016): 28–33. https://doi.org/10.48558/YVMS-CC96.