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Deep Dive Session

TUE-DD-01: Connecting the Dots: Best Practices for Designing with and for Disabilities

Tuesday, October 8, 2024
2:30pm – 5:00pm ET
Location: Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Room 154AB
SOLD OUT
2.50 PDH, LA CES/HSW, AICP, NY/HSW, FL
Ticket Price: $25 per person
Universal Design is evolving to become more nuanced and human-centered. This highly interactive, fun, and creative session will push you to reconsider your defaults. Learn how to leverage code and lived experience to create inclusive and multi-benefit design solutions and craft a design process that centers people with disabilities.

Learning Outcomes:

  • Learn how to develop a process and practice that centers disabled lived experience and is replicable in your firm, curriculum, or area of expertise.
  • Learn how to adapt historically sensitive places to be more equitable and accessible.
  • Become more proficient in finding multi-benefit design solutions on your projects.
  • Discover how landscape projects are evolving to focus on equity and access.
  • Experience firsthand how tactile and multisensory materials can unlock new design ideas and ways of communicating your design.
  • Find meaning in human-centered design by learning how to practically apply its principles.