Jonathan Wooder

Jonathan Wooder

A smiling young man with fair skin and wavy blonde hair looks directly at the camera. He is wearing a dark red collared polo shirt and a navy blue cardigan with brown shoulder patches. The background is a bright, sunlit outdoor area with blurred green foliage, a building facade with large glass windows, and hints of outdoor seating.

I am a fourth-year student, with a passion for popular media, organizational communication, and accessibility. At Ryerson, I focused my studies on visual communication through film and digital media, and accessibility through my study of American Sign Language (ASL). Post-graduation, I hope to continue in fields as broad as school communication, popular media, and everything in between.

Research

Focusing on accessibility in education, this project takes a phenomenological approach at how the layouts of classrooms shape not only the communication models, but the ease of use for students. This project chooses to propose a universal classroom design, and examines the ways to modernize the classroom for students of all abilities.

A colorful infographic titled 'Universal Classroom Design.' The top left illustrates 'Disability Theory' with a wheelchair icon and pink steps showing 'Social,' 'Structures,' 'Disable,' 'People.' The top right green panel describes 'Instructional Communication Theory' with a teacher and four student icons. The bottom left green panel highlights 'Accessibility, not Accommodation' with a heart icon, explaining that all provisions must be universally usable, like desks wide enough for wheelchairs. The bottom middle purple panel defines 'Invisible Design' as unobtrusive and intuitive, giving examples of textured flooring, multi-mode light systems, and video captions, with a retro TV icon. The bottom right pink panel details 'Flexible Design,' showing desks reconfiguring from a group to a row with circular arrows, emphasizing that furniture shifts based on needs and classroom layout adapts to lessons or students.
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Project Tags

Accessibility, Design, Education
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