Natalie D Kane
@ndkane.bsky.social
Curator of Digital Design at V&A. Trustee - The National Videogame Museum. Advisory board, Society for Computers and Law. Curator - Design and Disability open til Feb 26.
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Folks, our rubbish government have signed a £330 million government contract to sell our most sensitive healthcare data to Palantir, a company who have been exploiting vulnerable communities internationally - most recently working with ICE in the US. Take action! Write to your MP: tr.ee/4d82gg0BIN
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Cambridge and Central East England working group against Palantir in the NHS. Join us!
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November 13, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Folks, our rubbish government have signed a £330 million government contract to sell our most sensitive healthcare data to Palantir, a company who have been exploiting vulnerable communities internationally - most recently working with ICE in the US. Take action! Write to your MP: tr.ee/4d82gg0BIN
In positive news, colleagues at @mctd.bsky.social with @bda.org.uk have published this excellent set of recommendations to warn against the unrelenting tide of AI services that don’t account for BSL’s rich culture and diversity, and the risk it has in initiatives not being Deaf-led.
NEW REPORT 🚨 BSL is Not for Sale
Sign Language AI systems are being rolled out across the UK's public services without proper consultation with Deaf communities❗
➡️ www.mctd.ac.uk/bsl-not-for-...
Sign Language AI systems are being rolled out across the UK's public services without proper consultation with Deaf communities❗
➡️ www.mctd.ac.uk/bsl-not-for-...
September 5, 2025 at 3:15 PM
In positive news, colleagues at @mctd.bsky.social with @bda.org.uk have published this excellent set of recommendations to warn against the unrelenting tide of AI services that don’t account for BSL’s rich culture and diversity, and the risk it has in initiatives not being Deaf-led.
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There is a lot for disabled people to be enraged about. I partnered with artist Finnegan Shannon on #DisabledRage public art. All graphics are downloadable & feel free to share and wheatpaste all over your community
disabilityvisibilityproject.com/disabled-rage/
disabilityvisibilityproject.com/disabled-rage/
September 5, 2025 at 5:37 AM
There is a lot for disabled people to be enraged about. I partnered with artist Finnegan Shannon on #DisabledRage public art. All graphics are downloadable & feel free to share and wheatpaste all over your community
disabilityvisibilityproject.com/disabled-rage/
disabilityvisibilityproject.com/disabled-rage/
A good way to deal with burnout? Trees, lots of trees.
July 19, 2025 at 11:49 AM
A good way to deal with burnout? Trees, lots of trees.
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Come by next Saturday if you are interested in crip authorship, including histories of subtitling, visual description and plain language writing workshop.
Co-hosted with @center4ds.bsky.social
Co-hosted with @center4ds.bsky.social
Crip Authorship comes to the V&A! Pleased to host @maramills.bsky.social and Rebecca Sanchez on 21st June for a special event with @louhicky.bsky.social Kelsie Acton and Georgina Kleege. Tickets to the in person event and workshop here, online stream below: www.vam.ac.uk/event/135rMr...
Crip Authorship: Disability as a Method for Creativity - Special event at
V&A South Kensington · V&A
An afternoon of talks, a screening, and a workshop exploring disability, authorship, and access.
www.vam.ac.uk
June 16, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Come by next Saturday if you are interested in crip authorship, including histories of subtitling, visual description and plain language writing workshop.
Co-hosted with @center4ds.bsky.social
Co-hosted with @center4ds.bsky.social
Really loved editing this book because we got great writers like @supercrip1994.bsky.social!
I also contributed to the exhibition book, writing an entire chapter on the disabled experience in gaming.
June 10, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Really loved editing this book because we got great writers like @supercrip1994.bsky.social!
One last post before I rest for the weekend. Truly a bit overwhelmed to receive this review from a writer who I respect so much. Thanks @lucywebster.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
Design and Disability review – ‘A world-shaping, boundary-breaking joy of a show’
From self-tightening shoes to an all-purpose hands-free vibrator, this superb exhibition demonstrates that disability-led culture and design is about so much more than ramps
www.theguardian.com
June 7, 2025 at 4:38 PM
One last post before I rest for the weekend. Truly a bit overwhelmed to receive this review from a writer who I respect so much. Thanks @lucywebster.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
Design and Disability opens today at the V&A! We’re so happy to share it with you all. Disabled, Deaf and neurodivergent people and their companions go free. www.vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/...
June 7, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Design and Disability opens today at the V&A! We’re so happy to share it with you all. Disabled, Deaf and neurodivergent people and their companions go free. www.vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/...
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Calling all artists, creatives and cultural sector workers, there is an open letter about the changes to Access to Work which will be released on Monday, it’s been signed by almost 2000 people, please add your name if you can: airtable.com/appSbdVCnzZy...
May 30, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Calling all artists, creatives and cultural sector workers, there is an open letter about the changes to Access to Work which will be released on Monday, it’s been signed by almost 2000 people, please add your name if you can: airtable.com/appSbdVCnzZy...
Really nice to speak to Debika Ray for this piece on access and architecture, and about our upcoming show. Also features some amazing folks such as the Poppy Levison, Amanprit Arnold from Deaf City Hub, Chris Laing from Deaf Architecture Front and DisOrdinary Architecture.
The aesthetics of accessibility: design for disability that’s dynamic not dreary
https://www.ft.com/content/05309cf9-96d9-460f-b529-5f34b81316aa
https://www.ft.com/content/05309cf9-96d9-460f-b529-5f34b81316aa
The aesthetics of accessibility: design for disability that’s dynamic not dreary
Architecture is at a fertile inflection point. But while housebuilding goals, sustainability and retrofitting are dominating the agenda, why does accessibility too often remain an afterthought?
www.ft.com
June 2, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Really nice to speak to Debika Ray for this piece on access and architecture, and about our upcoming show. Also features some amazing folks such as the Poppy Levison, Amanprit Arnold from Deaf City Hub, Chris Laing from Deaf Architecture Front and DisOrdinary Architecture.
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📢 We've compiled a page of information on issues affecting Access to Work customers and new applicants, and details on how we can help.
There are also actions you can take to fight the proposed changes to Access to Work.
Read now and help #ProtectAtW
disabilityarts.online/resources/gu...
There are also actions you can take to fight the proposed changes to Access to Work.
Read now and help #ProtectAtW
disabilityarts.online/resources/gu...
May 27, 2025 at 4:21 PM
📢 We've compiled a page of information on issues affecting Access to Work customers and new applicants, and details on how we can help.
There are also actions you can take to fight the proposed changes to Access to Work.
Read now and help #ProtectAtW
disabilityarts.online/resources/gu...
There are also actions you can take to fight the proposed changes to Access to Work.
Read now and help #ProtectAtW
disabilityarts.online/resources/gu...
Crip Authorship comes to the V&A! Pleased to host @maramills.bsky.social and Rebecca Sanchez on 21st June for a special event with @louhicky.bsky.social Kelsie Acton and Georgina Kleege. Tickets to the in person event and workshop here, online stream below: www.vam.ac.uk/event/135rMr...
Crip Authorship: Disability as a Method for Creativity - Special event at
V&A South Kensington · V&A
An afternoon of talks, a screening, and a workshop exploring disability, authorship, and access.
www.vam.ac.uk
May 29, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Crip Authorship comes to the V&A! Pleased to host @maramills.bsky.social and Rebecca Sanchez on 21st June for a special event with @louhicky.bsky.social Kelsie Acton and Georgina Kleege. Tickets to the in person event and workshop here, online stream below: www.vam.ac.uk/event/135rMr...
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I'm giving a new talk on *"Subtitles on Fire"* at the V&A for the Design and Disability show. Featuring a screening of *Captioning and Captioning* — celebrating all things crip authorship with @maramills.bsky.social and Rebecca Sanchez
#DesignAndDisability www.vam.ac.uk/event/135rMr...
#DesignAndDisability www.vam.ac.uk/event/135rMr...
Crip Authorship: Disability as a Method for Creativity - Special event at
V&A South Kensington · V&A
An afternoon of talks, a screening, and a workshop exploring disability, authorship, and access.
www.vam.ac.uk
May 23, 2025 at 3:26 PM
I'm giving a new talk on *"Subtitles on Fire"* at the V&A for the Design and Disability show. Featuring a screening of *Captioning and Captioning* — celebrating all things crip authorship with @maramills.bsky.social and Rebecca Sanchez
#DesignAndDisability www.vam.ac.uk/event/135rMr...
#DesignAndDisability www.vam.ac.uk/event/135rMr...
You think this is me being excited about the exhibition sign going up (I am!) but actually I was showing exactly where the large quantity of plane tree pollen was rushing in to attack me.
May 27, 2025 at 10:42 PM
You think this is me being excited about the exhibition sign going up (I am!) but actually I was showing exactly where the large quantity of plane tree pollen was rushing in to attack me.
Day one of Design and Disability install and I’m impressed by the range of skills in our team, flower pressing by @musebloom.bsky.social is now a trade for hire. Also, early advance copies of our book are in the building!
May 19, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Day one of Design and Disability install and I’m impressed by the range of skills in our team, flower pressing by @musebloom.bsky.social is now a trade for hire. Also, early advance copies of our book are in the building!
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📣 Join Our Team 📣
We're looking for a creative, dynamic individual to join us as Marketing and Communications Manager.
This new role will help shape the Museum’s voice, connect with diverse audiences, and grow our reach and impact.
🗓 Deadline: 9am, Mon 2nd June 2025
thenvm.org/about/work-w...
We're looking for a creative, dynamic individual to join us as Marketing and Communications Manager.
This new role will help shape the Museum’s voice, connect with diverse audiences, and grow our reach and impact.
🗓 Deadline: 9am, Mon 2nd June 2025
thenvm.org/about/work-w...
May 16, 2025 at 3:50 PM
📣 Join Our Team 📣
We're looking for a creative, dynamic individual to join us as Marketing and Communications Manager.
This new role will help shape the Museum’s voice, connect with diverse audiences, and grow our reach and impact.
🗓 Deadline: 9am, Mon 2nd June 2025
thenvm.org/about/work-w...
We're looking for a creative, dynamic individual to join us as Marketing and Communications Manager.
This new role will help shape the Museum’s voice, connect with diverse audiences, and grow our reach and impact.
🗓 Deadline: 9am, Mon 2nd June 2025
thenvm.org/about/work-w...
I’ll be speaking with artists and designers from the Design and Disability show on 7th June at Great Exhibition Road festival - Kaiya Waerea, Finnegan Shannon and Arjun Harrison-Mann. Free! BSL interpreted, live captions, wear a mask! www.greatexhibitionroadfestival.co.uk/event/design...
Design and Disability - The Great Exhibition Road Festival
Join the curator of the V&A's new ‘Design and Disability’ exhibition to explore how disabled people are hacking, redesigning and subverting design.
www.greatexhibitionroadfestival.co.uk
May 16, 2025 at 7:20 PM
I’ll be speaking with artists and designers from the Design and Disability show on 7th June at Great Exhibition Road festival - Kaiya Waerea, Finnegan Shannon and Arjun Harrison-Mann. Free! BSL interpreted, live captions, wear a mask! www.greatexhibitionroadfestival.co.uk/event/design...
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May 5, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Share widely!
An open letter to the Equality and Human Rights Commission from the Culture Sector, in solidarity with Trans, Nonbinary and Intersex communities. Sign your name here: tinyurl.com/ehrcletter Please share widely, and if you are not able to sign for your organisation, please share with someone who can
May 2, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Share widely!
I’m really pleased to announce a book to accompany the upcoming Design and Disability show - a series of great conversations, with a few essays, around disabled cultural production, experience and expertise with design uk.bookshop.org/p/books/desi...
Design and Disability: 10 Tales of Accessible Design a book by Natalie Kane and Reuben Liebeskind.
This visually rich book celebrates design ingenuity - acknowledging the significant contributions of disabled individuals and communities to design and making that point that, simply put, inclusive de...
uk.bookshop.org
April 12, 2025 at 11:02 AM
I’m really pleased to announce a book to accompany the upcoming Design and Disability show - a series of great conversations, with a few essays, around disabled cultural production, experience and expertise with design uk.bookshop.org/p/books/desi...
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I promised I'd do it, and here it is!
You can now download the pdf of the zine "How to Archaeologically Record a Video Game" from itch:
florencesmithnicholls.itch.io/how-to-archa...
You can now download the pdf of the zine "How to Archaeologically Record a Video Game" from itch:
florencesmithnicholls.itch.io/how-to-archa...
How to Archaeologically Record a Video Game by Florence Smith Nicholls
A zine specially grown for GDC 2025
florencesmithnicholls.itch.io
April 9, 2025 at 4:27 PM
I promised I'd do it, and here it is!
You can now download the pdf of the zine "How to Archaeologically Record a Video Game" from itch:
florencesmithnicholls.itch.io/how-to-archa...
You can now download the pdf of the zine "How to Archaeologically Record a Video Game" from itch:
florencesmithnicholls.itch.io/how-to-archa...
Sadly missed the first day of #BDCAM25 as I’m deep in exhibition preparation however I’ll be there tomorrow as Anna Mladentseva and I will be talking about our work conserving mobile apps!
April 2, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Sadly missed the first day of #BDCAM25 as I’m deep in exhibition preparation however I’ll be there tomorrow as Anna Mladentseva and I will be talking about our work conserving mobile apps!
I have been truly envious of Leontien Talboom’s digital preservation related knitted jumpers but now she’s released the charts, and more about their origins on Cambridge University Library Blogs #digitalpreservation digitalpreservation-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/knitting-thr...
Knitting Through Digital Decay: A Collection of Digital Preservation Jumpers No One Asked For (But…
I’ve been truly overwhelmed by the interest in my Digital Preservation knitting patterns — thank you to everyone who has reached out…
digitalpreservation-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk
March 28, 2025 at 10:36 AM
I have been truly envious of Leontien Talboom’s digital preservation related knitted jumpers but now she’s released the charts, and more about their origins on Cambridge University Library Blogs #digitalpreservation digitalpreservation-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/knitting-thr...
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“I can’t sleep, I’m so scared.”
My report in tomorrow’s Guardian on the disability benefit cuts “domino effect”: losing PIP will see unpaid carers lose their benefits too - pulling away two main strands of a family’s income at once. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
My report in tomorrow’s Guardian on the disability benefit cuts “domino effect”: losing PIP will see unpaid carers lose their benefits too - pulling away two main strands of a family’s income at once. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
‘I can’t sleep, I’m so scared’: disabled people face benefit cuts domino effect
Three people tell how knock-on impact of losing Pip on carer’s allowance and other benefits will affect their families
www.theguardian.com
March 24, 2025 at 7:04 PM
“I can’t sleep, I’m so scared.”
My report in tomorrow’s Guardian on the disability benefit cuts “domino effect”: losing PIP will see unpaid carers lose their benefits too - pulling away two main strands of a family’s income at once. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
My report in tomorrow’s Guardian on the disability benefit cuts “domino effect”: losing PIP will see unpaid carers lose their benefits too - pulling away two main strands of a family’s income at once. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...