(Photo taken by Samson Huang, at the intersection of Robson St. and Granville St, July 2018)
An interactive activity that can be easily shared on social media platforms, that is at once fun and educational, was the goal of my contribution to the community e-zine. In going through the interactive tour, the user can learn about disability in the media, cripface, examples of poor and genuine representations, all while engaging in a trivia game-like experience. The intention of the journey through the tour is to bring the user from a place of unknowing to a place of awareness, starting with definitions and simpler questions, to more thought-provoking ones. Hopefully by the end of the activity the user would be surprised to see how little disability is represented and be compelled to do something about it—which becomes easy, because they can simply share the activity on their Facebook or Instagram so that others are aware, too. This activity could not have been made possible without the services of websites like Typeform.
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