Strawberry Leopard
Inclusive Design Consultancy:
Creating Accessible, Liminal Built Environments Where Everyone Belongs
"Welcoming difference on every journey, through every environment."
Inspired by rare leopards, driven by the diversity that shapes us all.
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Listening closely, co-creating intentionally and passionately shaping life-centred experiences that ensure everyone feels they belong.
We only know a tiny proportion about the complexity of the natural world. Wherever you look, there are still things we don’t know about and don’t understand. There are always new things to find out if you go looking for them.
A Chartered Architect by
profession, with over 30 years of experience, driven by curiosity, kindness and creativity.
Empathetic and a good listener, I bring a human-centred approach to every project. Over my career, I have partnered with major global corporations across industries including technology, aviation, pharmaceuticals, consumer goods and digital media.
My expertise lies in design, workplace strategy, change management, action research and creating inclusion, accessibility and a sense of belonging. For me, its all about authentic, life-centred design.
No one will protect what they don’t care about; and no one will care about what they have never experienced.
Living experience:
Alongside my professional practice, I live with a neurodegenerative condition that offers insight into daily considerations in the built environment -
from conserving energy, to sustaining independence, dignity and safety.
Our inclusive design consultancy is founded in living experience. From neurodiversity to chronic illness, from caregiving to ageing, we all recognise every experience as part of the wider neuroverse-our human biodiversity of mind, body and emotion.
Gillian, our founder lives with a neurodegenerative condition and chronic illness while having cared for her father with motor neurone disease and her mother with deafness and vascular dementia. Reminding us that disability can be invisible, temporary, degenerative, episodic, or situational. Thats why we are commited to transforming inclusive design from a checkbox into a change agent for connection, dignity and belonging.
How can we create environments that enable everyone to thrive?
Understand inclusive environments and explore human-centred design in our core CPD course with architect Gillian Burgis-Smith.
Book your place online today: ow.ly/3hyP50NmWvw
In our hands now lies not only our own future but that of all other living creatures with whom we share the earth.
A journey marked with passion, purpose and principle. Living experience and compassion have made me want to push boundaries and challenge designing for the ‘average’.
To acknowledge and embrace individuality and human-diversity, considering mental health and well-being by creating spaces where everyone can thrive.