SUN-A05 - Design with Disabled People Now: Including Disabled People in the Design Process

Sunday, November 21, 2021

9:00 AM – 10:00 AM CDT

Location: Music City Center, Room 205

1.00 PDH, LA CES/HSW, AIA/HSW, AICP, FL, NY/HSW

Lead Speaker(s)

Alexa Vaughn, ASLA

Landscape Designer & Access Specialist
MIG
Cerritos, California

Speaker(s)

Karen L. Braitmayer, FAIA

Founding Principal
Studio Pacifica
Seattle, Washington
Aimi Hamraie, PhD

Associate professor of Medicine, Health, & Society
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, Tennessee

1.00 PDH, LA CES/HSW, AIA/HSW, AICP, FL, NY/HSW

There are over 1 billion disabled people globally, yet we rarely include the disabled community in the design process. Through this session, we will learn directly from three disabled-identifying experts to become more inclusive designers, with and beyond the ADA Standards, to create a more equitable and accessible public realm.

Learning Outcomes:

Learn how to challenge the dominant worldview of the medical model of disability, and switch to a social model view of disability and the built environment.
Learn how to include disabled people in the design process by learning from disabled experts, come to an understanding of the ADA Standards and Universal Design, and discover more resources.
Learn how to include disabled people in community engagements and stakeholder meetings by making events more accessible and by trusting in and learning from lived experiences over assumptions.
Learn how to include disabled people in access audits of the built environment and consciously make the switch from inaccurate “sensitivity studies” that do not include disabled people.