Access, denizens and screens in urban space: Locating disability through the Creative City to the Smart City

Abstract

This thesis analyses the role of the screen in defining disability and accessibility in the dominant urban discourses of the Creative and Smart cities, and the increasing prosthetic role of the mobile urban screen (smartphone) as citizen interface. This thesis applies interdisciplinary research to develop a critical, in-depth understanding of the relationship between screens and disability, and to destabilise assumptions of the normate citizen and the preferred user.