ABSTRACT

This chapter presents a series of conversations between Thea and co-writer Katie Lloyd Thomas, and many others, like Isabella, who have been and are involved with the house. It also presents the planning, building and inhabitation of the house as an ongoing process of inclusivity to construct an inclusive piece of writing that welcomes and is structured around the voices and responses to the house of those who use it. The chapter expresses that making the experience of a disabled child the starting point of a design process transforms the way she and the family live, and opens up potential rather than limiting expectations. The building of the Ramp House has also allowed wider networks of people to become involved in building Greta's world and be transformed by it, even if just in small ways. The Ramp House also demonstrates a wider definition of inclusivity in its procurement, design and building, because of the large range of people involved.