A stadium concourse on match day: a teenage girl with black headphones round her neck walks calmly beside her father, among fans of every age, an older man with a walking stick and a young man in a wheelchair.

The Human Variability Project

There is no human B.

There are environments that leave people out. We help schools, stadiums, restaurants and cities prepare for human variability.

In the early evening, three generations of a family arrive at the door of a small neighbourhood restaurant. A waiter in a black apron greets them with a welcoming gesture, at eye level.

Born of indignation

  • At a world that asks people to adapt to spaces, when it is spaces that should adapt to people.
  • At the idea that there is an average kind of person, whom society accepts as the right one, and another, whom it ignores or sets aside.
  • That there are families who stop going out, travelling, going to a match or a restaurant, because the world outside was not designed with them in mind.

But indignation is only worth something when it becomes a movement.

The thesis

Adapt the environment, not the person.

The environment stops being a constant. The person stops being the variable to correct.

The pattern we reject

  1. Crisis
  2. Remove
  3. Regulate
  4. Return

The pattern we design

  1. Understand
  2. Adapt
  3. Take part
  4. Learn

What we do

Four fronts. One transformation.

A training room at a sports club: a woman trainer and a young male trainer present, side by side, to a team seated in a semicircle.

People

Equipped to welcome.

NURA Kit: black backpack with a lime-green handle, noise-reducing headphones, a pouch and fidget objects.

Tools

Available to anyone who wants them.

A university corridor with a black ‘Quieter zone’ sign by a door; students walk past without stopping.

Spaces

Signposted and easy to read.

The glass entrance of a public library with a small black sticker on the door; people of all ages go in, including a woman with a guide dog.

Places

Certified, visible to the community.

The pathway

A pyramid that starts with people.

Before equipping, signposting or building, those who welcome, decide and share the space need to understand the cause. We start at the base: widest reach, lowest cost, quick results.

No stage skips the one before.

  1. 1 · JoiningA commitment to human variability
  2. 2 · TrainingThe most people, in the least time
  3. 3 · EquipNURA Kit for anyone who wants it
  4. 4 · PrepareSignage, advance information and adjustments
  5. 5 · CertifyPublic proof of the transformation
  6. 6 · New spacesNURA Base · Phase 2, in development

What the organisation gains

A new capability, visible and tangible.

01

Public recognition

Visibility as a member organisation and, once verified, as a certified place: a clear signal for anyone choosing where to study, watch a match or eat out.

02

Measurable impact

Indicators of autonomy, participation and improvements carried into the shared environment. We measure the world people can choose again.

03

Speed

Most of the transformation happens without building work: training, tools, signage and low-cost adjustments.

For people and families

Take the cause to the places you go.

Your children’s school, the club, your workplace. Every person who joins makes it easier for a place to decide to change.

  • Sign the Manifesto.
  • Take the NO HUMAN B online awareness course.
  • Nominate a place you would like to see prepared.
At a museum information desk, a member of staff offers the NURA backpack to a visitor, who takes it quite naturally.

Who we are

Three educators. Over 30 years each. A meeting in Spain.

We have devoted our lives to teaching. That meeting gave rise to NO HUMAN B: a movement that turns lack of awareness into awareness, and awareness into environments prepared for human variability.

Let us be happy.Each in our own way.Each in our own time.