Accessibility · Technology · Human Perspective
Access that works.
In real life.
Accessibility strategy and innovation, shaped by human perspective. AP44 helps organizations improve how people experience their spaces, services, and technology.
AP44 / DEVELOPMENT GARAGE
IN DEVELOPMENTPROJECT 01 / WHEELCHAIR TRAVEL
AirGuard Cradle
A better journey starts with protecting the chair.
CURRENT STAGE 01 / CONCEPT
- 01 · ConceptCurrent
- 02 · DesignFuture stage
- 03 · PrototypeFuture stage
- 04 · TestingFuture stage
Current focus: defining handling and protection requirements.
Explore the project
What we’re exploring
A proposed approach to protecting wheelchairs during air travel, shaped by the people who depend on them.
Where it stands
Early concept. No tested prototype yet. Operational input and engineering assessment are needed to establish feasibility.
What comes next
Discuss handling requirements, aircraft constraints, and potential testing with qualified collaborators. Later stages depend on what we learn.
Work with AccessPoint 44
Turn experience into better decisions.
Define the challenge.
Accessibility strategy, hands-free usability reviews, inclusive technology evaluation, and workshops.
Explore services →02 / SELECTED WORKSee the approach.
Published storytelling, ongoing civic inquiry, and clearly identified areas of development.
Explore our work →03 / IN DEVELOPMENTExplore what’s next.
Early concepts in wheelchair travel and emergency preparedness, with honest project status.
Visit the lab →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 44Field 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
Innovation Lab / In development
Better questions. New possibilities.
Explore early research into wheelchair travel and inclusive emergency preparedness. Each concept is labeled by its current stage.
Explore the Innovation Lab →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.
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