STADPLURAAL | Accessible Nightlife – Rethinking Club Design

STADPLURAAL | Accessible Nightlife – Rethinking Club Design

Avec : Club Dérive + Dancefloor Intimacy + Montage + Antonella Candiago + Giu Paluku-Atoka + The Wheelies Project

What would club nights look like if they were designed around the lived experiences of Disabled, neurodivergent, and chronically ill people?   

As part of STADPLURAAL, this conversation explores how club culture can center access, care, and interdependence rather than treating inclusion as an afterthought. As sites of encounter, desire, and intimacy, clubs shape flirtation, sexuality, and relational dynamics through access — yet disabled realities are often overlooked. Drawing on an event by Montage, Club Dérive, and Dancefloor Intimacy (14/11/25, Recyclart), it opens broader questions about the future of club culture — and who it can be designed for.
 

PARTICIPANTS

Clara Golfa Sambay, Club Dérive - Radical and experimental club research and design that explores the relationship between environment and clubgoers @club.derive

Ali Wagner, Dancefloor Intimacy - Research and education platform committed to reshaping nightclubs and music venues into accessible and inclusive spaces @ali___wagner @dancefloor.intimacy

Laura Conant & Jonathan Cant, Montage - Label and event series focusing on concretizing the link between alternative culture and alternative ideals  @lau_c_n_n_t @crat_j @m0nt4ge

Antonella Candiago - disability rights advocate and intersectional feminist with expertise in sexual justice and accessibility @antonella_cnd
 

MODERATION

Giu Paluku-Atoka - Multidisciplinary artist and facilitator whose practice is rooted in disability justice, trans and queer revolution. As a moderator, Giu is committed to slower, kinder conversations that leave room for complexity and embodied experience.  @giu_404