The Movement
We are all fully human.
Different from one another, and different from ourselves over a lifetime. NO HUMAN B exists so that the world responds better to that reality.
We are three educators. Each of us has devoted more than thirty years to teaching, and it was in Spain that our paths crossed. That meeting gave rise to NO HUMAN B.
It was born of indignation.
Indignation at a world that asks people to adapt to spaces, when it is spaces that should adapt to people.
Indignation 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.
Indignation that there are families who stop going out, travelling, going to a match or a restaurant, because the world outside was not designed for a son, for a father, or for themselves.
Indignation at the lack of understanding that leads people to judge, to push away and to shut out anyone who does not fit the moulds imposed on them.
But indignation is only worth something when it becomes a movement.
NO HUMAN B exists to bring light where there is lack of understanding, reflection where there is judgement and a new model where there is exclusion. It starts from a simple awareness: there is no type-B human being. There is no ‘second-class’ version of anyone. We are all fully human: different from one another and different from ourselves over a lifetime.
Human variability is not a problem to be fixed. It is what makes us beautiful. It is what lets us recognise our own humanity in one another.
That is why the movement does not stop at words. We train the people who welcome, signpost spaces, make tools available to anyone who wants to use them and certify the places that make this change. NO HUMAN B certification is not a diploma hanging on the wall. It is public proof that a place has learned to welcome human variability, and a sign, for every family, that they are welcome there too.
Every certified place is a door that opens. Every open door makes the world a little bigger.
Let us be happy. Each in our own way. Each in our own time.
Purpose · the why
To widen the world each person can live in, so that no person or family gives up studying, working, travelling, supporting their team or simply being with others because they do not fit an average model.
Mission · the how
To turn lack of awareness into awareness, and awareness into environments prepared for human variability.
Vision
Schools with different ways to learn; workplaces with different ways to contribute; cities with different ways to get around.
Shared promise
Every NO HUMAN B intervention must widen one or more of these capabilities.
Variability as the starting point
Humanity was never standard.
We differ in how we perceive, move, understand, remember, communicate, regulate ourselves, decide and act. And we change over a lifetime.
Across a lifetime
Childhood, adolescence, adulthood and later life.
In how we function
Perception, mobility, communication, attention, memory, orientation, energy and decision-making.
Over time
Congenital or acquired conditions; stable, progressive, episodic, temporary or situational.
Depending on context
A person can act independently in one environment and lose that in another, because of noise, rush or missing information.
Access never depends on a diagnosis. NO HUMAN B is the thesis, never the name of an audience. Variability is not the fault; a rigid environment is the design limitation.
Inclusion is not integration
The environment adapts. The person is not the variable to correct.
The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (Article 24) and its General Comment No. 4 distinguish three things:
- Segregation: separating those who do not fit.
- Integration: placing the person in the existing system and expecting them to adapt.
- Inclusion: changing the system (content, methods, structures) to remove barriers.
The Salamanca Statement (1994) already asked for the same: respond to diversity, rather than separate those who do not fit the dominant model.
The right question is not ‘should we have a room?’. It is: does this increase the person’s choices, or reduce the number of places where they are seen as belonging?
The autonomy we protect
Independence means staying the author of your own life.
It does not mean doing everything alone. Good support does not replace the person: it widens their ability to act.
Decision architecture
Never: system observes → classifies the person → decides what they need.
- Understand what is happening and what options exist.
- Express preferences, consent and refusal.
- Choose pace, intensity, routes and ways of taking part.
- Communicate by the most effective means.
- Act directly or with the support they choose.
- Keep relationships, roles and meaningful activities.
- Take part in the community and contribute to it.
- Protect privacy, identity and control over their data.