Are you neurodiverse? Do you have mobility issues, either permanent, due to an injury or due to age? Are you pregnant, pushing a pram or trailing small children / elderly family members? Are you out at night time? No matter who you are, the built environment will present challenges at different times in your life.

This conversation brings together design and lived experience to explore how our built environment can be enabling – more welcoming, accessible and safe – to all people.

Architects Toni Neck and Patric Przeradzki will share decades of combined experience and introduce the research and technology that is reshaping the places we live, work and play.

Examples include the Perth Airport Sensory Room. Designed by Plus Studio and an Australian first, it is a calming environment designed to make journeys easier for neurodivergent travellers. The project is indicative of a shift as design responds to increasing diversity across age, ability, gender and neurology.

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Image: Perth Airport Sensory Room / Plus Studio / image Nicholas Putrasia

Toni Neck

Architect Toni Neck chairs the Australian Institute of Architects Enabling Architecture Committee. Over three decades in architecture with a specialisation in the health sector, Toni has developed a deep understanding of the operational, clinical, and human complexities of buildings. A common thread through all Toni’s work is a firm belief that well-designed healthcare environments can profoundly improve outcomes for patients, staff, and communities. She focuses on creating enabling, engaging, and sustainable solutions that respond to the social, economic, and environmental demands placed on contemporary health infrastructure.

Patric Przeradzki

Patric Przeradzki is a Director of Plus Studio in Perth, where he leads a multidisciplinary architecture and interior design practice working across residential, hospitality, workplace, community and public projects. He is particularly interested in how design can respond more thoughtfully to the diversity of people who use our buildings and spaces, and in moving inclusive design from policy into practical project outcomes. This includes Plus Studio’s work on the Sensory Room at Perth Airport’s Terminal 1, designed to provide a calmer and more supportive environment for neurodivergent travellers and others who may find the airport experience overwhelming. Patric is also interested in the broader role architects can play in creating more equitable, adaptable and genuinely human-centred places.