Designing
Accessibility:
People,
Artifacts,
and
Access

Oct 25, 2023

About

THE DESIGN REDEFINED SERIES


These events aim to challenge conventional understandings of design as a process of enhancing aesthetics, usability, or marketability and instead encourage a deeper understanding of design as a powerful tool for change.

Do you love art, STEM, and/or design? Are you interested in social justice? Innovators for Purpose (iFp), a BIPOC-led non-profit youth design and innovation studio, is partnering with the MIT Museum and the MIT Morningside Academy for Design to develop a quarterly discussion series called Design Redefined.

The event is free with admission to the MIT Museum. High School students can register for a limited number of free tickets to the MIT Museum: HERE.

DESIGNING Accessibility: People, Artifacts, and Access

MIT MAD’s Rosa Weinberg will moderate a panel discussion examining design for accessibility. Centering on the experiences of PEOPLE with disabilities, we will explore the opportunities and challenges associated with the design of adaptive technologies and ARTIFACTS. We will also explore how explicit design of the built environment enhances or hinders ACCESS for all.

The event will feature a panel discussion, followed by a fun, hands-on workshop. This workshop will provide a space to design, sketch, and create ideas and spaces for a more equitable and just Kendall Square and MIT Campus. Food will be served in the second half of the program.

This is an opportunity to meet like-minded peers, professionals, and MIT students and faculty.

FEATURING

Designer, design educator, and design education researcher Rosa Weinberg.

ACCESSIBILITY

Our events are enriched by your presence and we are committed to making them accessible.

Please email us at [email protected] to request accommodations.

Information

October 25, 4–6pm

MIT Museum
314 Main Street, Cambridge