Why Toronto, why now: notes on opening a North American chapter in 2026
What we learned from two years of co-design clinics in Scarborough, Parkdale, and Regent Park — and why the chapter is starting on a side street, not in a tower.
Travel, accommodation, accessibility costs, and accompanying-companion fares are covered by the network for every accepted attendee. There is no ticket price. There is an application — because the rooms are kept small on purpose.
For people building accessible products with disabled co-creators. Includes cohort review weekend access.
4-day summit
Cohort review weekend
Build-clinic slot
Accessibility cost coverage
For academic and clinical researchers presenting work or sourcing study collaborators.
4-day summit
Methods workshops
Co-publishing matchmaking
Open access to summit data
For program officers, policy leads, and operators who can multiply or unblock the work.
4-day summit
Policy roundtables
Off-record steward sessions
Site visits to chapters
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What we learned from two years of co-design clinics in Scarborough, Parkdale, and Regent Park — and why the chapter is starting on a side street, not in a tower.
A real curb cut in May becomes a wall of plowed snow in February. We spent a winter mapping the city to find out what the data says — and what it can’t say.
