Kimberly Warner

Kimberly Warner

Kimberly Warner

Director of The Home Smart Home Mini-Documentary | Founder of Unfixed Media

The Home Smart Home Roundtable  

Have you ever stopped to consider how your living environment can enable or disable you? Now imagine having a chronic condition or physical disability that exaggerates those challenges. Alongside the essential mobility issues some homes present, lighting, acoustics, room and ceiling structure, ergonomics, and lack of modern technology can also play a massive role in how our environments support our well-being. In this short film, nine subjects with diverse diagnoses and symptoms explore how their homes and specific design scenarios have exacerbated their conditions. They also imaginer the perfect home for their disability, specifying how smart, livable design could facilitate more engaged, supported, and effortless lives.

Following the screening of Home Smart Home, director and founder of Unfixed Media, Kimberly Warner, Enabled Disabled founder and podcast host Gustavo Serafini, multiple sclerosis advocate Kyle Kranich, narcolepsy advocate Bethany Cook, and interior designer Shelly Rosenberg will join together to discuss the making of the film and their own experiences of how their homes enable and disable them.


BIO

Kimberly Warner is a film director and producer based in Oregon. In 2015, Kimberly developed Mal de Débarquement Syndrome, a neurological disorder that manifests as a feeling of constant rocking, bobbing or swaying. After years of isolation and desperately chasing a fix, Kimberly founded Unfixed Media Productions in 2019 to share stories of people living with chronic conditions. These stories are part of an expanding Unfixed portfolio that currently includes a docu-series, multiple mini-series, a podcast, round-table webcast, and feature documentary film all in production. 
Unfixed Media Productions has led to Kimberly’s larger advocacy role within the chronic illness community where she writes and speaks about patient experiences. She is on the editorial board of the Journal of Health Design and a VeDA ambassador. She is also the recipient of the 2021 Life on the Life Best International Contribution award and IDA’s 2020 Media Impact Award.