Name: Accessible Pedagogies: Integrating Disability and Access in Design Education
Start: 2024-04-08T14:00:00-04:00
End: 2024-04-08T18:00:00-04:00
Location: Hirshon Suite - Room I203

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Accessible Pedagogies: Integrating Disability and Access in Design Education

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Monday

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April

8

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2024

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2:00PM

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6:00PM

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EDT

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Accessible Pedagogies: Integrating Disability and Access in Design Education

Experts with disabilities and allies of disabled communities will address the growing need to include and represent disabled people and their experiences in design education.

The seminars will emphasize how accessible modalities for disseminating information can be woven into the curriculum and teaching materials.

Some of the topics of the day include:

Accessible pedagogies - methods for integrating multiple modes of engagement, representation, and expression in the classroom

Strategies for Collaborative projects with disabled communities

Models of framing disability

Best practices for offering content and design in different spaces for broader audiences

Social-cultural impacts of design on disabled and under-represented populations.

Presented by Parsons Disabled Fashion Student Program at Parsons School of Fashion.

Accessibility

This event will feature image descriptions, live captions, and ASL interpretation. The building has elevator for wheelchair users.

Event guests seeking accommodations may contact the event organizer by clicking the "Contact the Organizer" link at the bottom of this page.

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Cost

Free of cost

Website

https://www.newschool.edu

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Speakers

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Sugandha Gupta

Sugandha Gupta is the Assistant Professor of Fashion Design and Social Justice at Parsons
School of Design. She is a textile artist, designer, and a disability advocate.

Dr. Amy Hurst

Amy Hurst is an Associate Professor with a joint appointment in the Department of Occupational Therapy in the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development and the Department of Technology, Culture and Society in the Tandon School of Engineering. She is also the director of the director of the Ability Project.

Josh Halstead

Joshua Halstead is a design educator and disability studies scholar. A recognized contributor to disability design discourse, they seek to unsettle power/knowledge in theory and praxis by centering marginalized perspectives.

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