Sinéad Burke has designs on a more accessible world

From visiting the White House and the United Nations to taking selfies with former US vice-president Joe Biden, Irishwoman Sinéad Burke is blazing an international trail.

Sinéad Burke has designs on a more accessible world

Her recently-delivered TED Talk, on why design should include everyone, has now amassed more than 750,000 views as the Trinity academic aims to break down all sorts of barriers.

“I am incredibly proud to be a little person, to have inherited the condition of achondroplasia,” she said.

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