BÄM!

In mid-May the AccessTech core team was finally complete and met for a retreat in beautiful Carinthia, near Lake Ossiach, from May 23rd to May 24th.

Selfie with project members smiling.  From left front to right: Felix sitting in a wheelchair, Ekat wearing a dashing shirt, Katta posing, Robin kneeling down smiling, Kay kneeling down squinting, Katharina leaning forward and smiling, Lou grinning into the camera and Janis holding the camera.

We used those two days to fully concentrate on how to approach our big project, what we want to achieve within its different subtopics and what we need to do so. Along the way we also got to know each other better as a team with our strengths as well as weaknesses and defined our guiding principle for the project:

Everybody is talking about access, accessibility and equality, but to really give a sense of what access actually means, we decided to use this project to make a little ‘BAM!’ to increase crip (self-)awareness in this world!

Sidenote: Breaks are important! In between, we also took enough time to clear our heads again and how could a project better kick off than with a full rainbow…

Some project members and interpreters looking over Lake Ossiach with a rainbow spanning both sides of the lake.