Overwhelmingly white neighborhoods, schools, workplaces, restaurants, and other public spaces remain. Since the end of the civil rights movement, large numbers of Black people have made their way into settings previously occupied only by whites, though their reception has been mixed.
Margaret Cekada Memorial Lecture: Elijah Andersonīlack in White Space: The Enduring Impact of Color in Everyday Life She continues to research and lecture widely about designing with Deaf and disabled people and her most recent work can be found at Feb 9 Her DeafScape work (Ground Up, Issue 7) has been widely featured in publications such as ArchDaily, Curbed, and Elle Decor (2020 A-List Architecture). She has been published twice in Ground Up Journal (Issue 7 and Issue 10), has written for ASLA’s "The Dirt" and LAF's Landscape Performance Series, and advised the ASLA Universal Design Guide (published online in Aug 2019). Her goal is to create a more inclusive design process and a more accessible public realm that centers the Deaf and disabled communities, with disabled experts and stakeholders fully participating in the process. Alexa has particular expertise in designing for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing community, facilitation of disabled community engagement during the design process, a working knowledge of the ADA Standards for Accessible Design through a landscape architectural lens, and a passion for Universal Design. Prior to starting her position with MIG, she worked for OLIN for three years in their Los Angeles office, where she took part in several large-scale projects such as the Los Angeles River Master Plan.
Including the Deaf and Disabled Communities in the Design ProcessĪlexa is a Deaf landscape designer and accessibility specialist at MIG, a 2020 Landscape Architecture Foundation Olmsted Fellow, and two-time alumna of the University of California, Berkeley, where she received her BA in Landscape Architecture in 2016 and her MLA in 2018. She received the Architectural Record 2018 Women in Architecture Activist Award and the 2021 John Q. Her theory work explores the relationship between subjectivity, design, and labor in the current economy. Articles by her have appeared in Log, Avery Review, e-Flux, and Harvard Design Magazine amongst other journals. She is the editor of Architecture and Capitalism: 1845 to the Present and The Architect as Worker: Immaterial Labor, the Creative Class, and the Politics of Design and the author of Architecture and Labor. She is a founding member of the Architecture Lobby, a group advocating for the value of architectural design and labor. Peggy Deamer is Professor Emerita of Yale University’s School of Architecture and principal in the firm of Deamer, Studio. SEMESTER INTRODUCTION - Richard Alomar and Kate John-Alder Master of Landscape Architecture (M.L.A.).
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