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Design is commonly thought of as a field that determines the look and feel of products or environments: the shape of your eyeglasses, the flow of a building, or the pattern of city streets. But services and policies are also designed: they are the product of human deliberation and decision-making. Join the Fellows & Education Policy programs at Â鶹¹û¶³´«Ã½ for two discussions that look at disability in the design of everyday life, in multiple contexts.

Designing Inclusive Spaces:Ìý

How does the built environment hold and influence cultural values? What sort of platform would allow for someone in a wheelchair to enhance their dancing? How does one design a university tailored to deafness? Focusing on the design of physical objects and environments as they intersect with policy in public life, this conversation explores both ideas and concrete examples of social imagination in design.Ìý

Designing Inclusive Policies:Ìý

There are numerous complex challenges that come with creating quality school environments for all children. How are notions of ability and capacity used to frame the academic and behavioral performance of students with disabilities and students of color, and students who are both? What are the horizons for best practices in designing future equitable education policies?Ìý

AgendaÌý

11:00 am – 12:30 pm: Designing Inclusive SpacesÌý

Participants:Ìý

Alice Sheppard,Ìý
Award-winning Choreographer & Professional DancerÌý

Hansel BaumanÌý
Chief Architect, Co-founder and Project Director, DeafSpace Institute,
Gallaudet UniversityÌý

Keith DoaneÌý
Gallaudet Class of 2014, Innovation & Entrepreneurship Program Coordinator,
Gallaudet UniversityÌý

Moderator:Ìý

Sara Hendren,ÌýÌý
Class of 2018 Eric & Wendy Schmidt Fellow, Â鶹¹û¶³´«Ã½Ìý

12:30 – 1 pm: Lunch & Networking BreakÌý

1:00 – 2:30 pm: Designing Inclusive PoliciesÌý

Participants:Ìý

Rebecca Cokley,ÌýÌý
Senior Fellow at the Center for American ProgressÌý

Elena Silva,ÌýÌý
Director of PreK-12, Education Policy, Â鶹¹û¶³´«Ã½Ìý

Jeremiah IslarÌý
Youth advocate and Administrative/Program Assistant, SchoolTalk DCÌý

Moderator:Ìý

Sara Hendren,ÌýÌý
Class of 2018 Eric & Wendy Schmidt Fellow, Â鶹¹û¶³´«Ã½Ìý

Lunch will be provided.Ìý
The building is accessible and an ASL interpreter will be present.ÌýPlease reach out with additional access needs; we are committed to building an inclusive event.

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