Access Point 44 / Denver, Colorado
Human in
the loop.
Lived experience meets accessibility, culture, and AI. The point is to solve real problems with the people who actually live them.
The person behind AccessPoint 44
Professionally Nosy.
By Design.
I’ve always been curious about how things work. People. Technology. Culture. Cities. Systems. And especially the things nobody seems to question.
That curiosity has taken me through radio studios, television production, city planning, public service, disability advocacy, and now artificial intelligence and spatial computing.
I’ve spent decades looking at systems from angles they weren’t necessarily designed to accommodate. Sometimes I’ve worked inside those systems. Sometimes I’ve challenged them. And sometimes I’ve simply asked a question nobody else thought to ask.
Who was this designed for? And who got left out?
That curiosity is part of why I built AccessPoint 44. It’s where lived experience meets technology, culture, accessibility, and the willingness to look at familiar problems differently.
I’ve been professionally nosy for most of my life.
Now I’ve given it a platform.
Explore the Story Behind AccessPoint 44Your way into AP44
Start here.
Read my story
Why I built AccessPoint 44, and why access without agency isn’t enough.
Why AccessPoint 44Explore Field Notes
Films, observations, and questions across disability, technology, culture, and design.
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Explore access, AI, preparedness, storytelling, production, and mentoring.
Explore servicesField Note 01 / Access in practice
When the door doesn't open.
An automatic door marked out of order can turn an ordinary visit into a negotiation. I use scenes like this to bring the lived consequence into decisions about places and services.
Access delayed is dignity denied.
Bring me an access challengeA short AP44 concept film
Visual description of the film
An automatic-door button is marked out of order. A wheelchair user waits outside while other people pass through the entrance. The film closes with the words, “Access delayed is dignity denied.”
A different starting point
Start with the person.
I know what it means when a system looks fine on paper and fails in the hands of the person using it. That gap is where AP44 works. I bring lived expertise into decisions about spaces, tools, services, and stories, then help turn insight into something people can use.
The work
01 / DESIGN FOR ACCESS
Build the door wider.
Accessibility consulting for public art, civic spaces, services, and experiences. That means looking beyond a checklist to ask how someone actually arrives, participates, understands, and belongs.
Bring me a site, plan, exhibit, or service before the next decision is locked in.
Discuss an access project
02 / HUMAN + AI
Make the tools answer to people.
AI prompt strategy, agent workflows, and hands-free technology ideas shaped by daily life. I’m interested in useful intelligence, clear human judgment, and interfaces that adapt to the person.
I use films like this to explore the relationship between people, technology, and the world built around them. The human stays at the center.
Bring me a tool or workflow that needs to work better for the person using it.
Discuss a technology projectDesigning the line others miss · 20-second generated concept film
Visual description of the film
A wheelchair user moves through a city. A woman appears in close-up. AP44 title cards read “Access Point 44” and “Designing the line others miss.” The film includes a skyline at sunset and a wheelchair user silhouetted against the sky.
03 / STORY + CULTURE
Give the full story room.
Speaking, writing, and creative work connect disability with humor, history, culture, and possibility. The goal is a more honest conversation, one with people in it rather than labels standing in for them.
Discuss a talk or story
Ideas in development
WoundFlow, ForensicBot, MMX, and the STL Machine are part of AP44’s evolving exploration of care, analysis, communication, and AI embodiment.
For photographs, writing, performance, and more of my story, visit my personal archive ↗.
The person behind the work
Out in the world.
This short concept film puts a stylized version of me in the city. AP44 is meant to move through public life, meet people where they are, and keep asking who gets access.
AP44 concept film · generated portrayal
Visual description of the film
A stylized portrayal of Stewart in a suit and sunglasses travels through a downtown plaza in a power wheelchair. Buildings and pedestrians appear around him.
Work together
Let’s get into it.
Have an accessibility challenge, a civic project, a story, or a technology idea that needs a grounded human point of view? Tell me what you’re working on and how to reach you.
Tell me about your project.
A few lines are enough to start: what is happening, who it affects, and what decision or date is coming up.
Please leave medical details, passwords, and payment information out of this form. You can also email stewart@accesspoint44.com.