Seattle Design Festival 2025 UWTCAT presence
Seattle Design Festival 25 with the Taskar Center for Accessible Technology
This landing page helps you access interactive experiences and tools from our Seattle Design Festival installation. Listen to the overviews, then expand to hear narrations and read transcripts for each activity/tool.
Overview of Festival Activities and the TDEI mission
Add your mobility story to the installation and see how lived experience becomes design action.
TCAT’s third block installation at SDF celebrates our long-time friendship with the Seattle Design Festival Board. Our mission is to research, develop, and deploy technologies designed for the fullness of human experience — including disability. The design festival has provided moments for Washingtonians to pause and question how our lives are impacted by design and how resistance can shape the designed artifacts and environments we face.
This year’s theme, FEEDBACK, aligns with our participatory design processes and our commitment to community-driven data. Data Empowers Placemaking.
AccessMap
Look up your neighborhood, see what routes work best for you, and explore at AccessMap.app.
AVIV ScoutRoute
Log barriers and see how local stories shape the data. Find it on the App Store or Play Store.
Walksheds
Explore how we measure sidewalk effectiveness for different users. With our data we can simulate the trip for different types of travelers, even those with specific requirements about the paths.
Access to Belonging Wall
Add your mobility story to the installation and see how lived experience becomes design action.
Team Challenges
See how high school and youth teams, as well as workplace teams, collect data, test tools, and prototype inclusive cities.
About TCAT
How we design, build, and deploy tech to improve independence and quality of life for people with disabilities.