READINGS

Aimi Hamraie, “Designing Collective Access: A Feminist Disability Theory of Universal Design” in Disability Studies Quarterly Vol 33 No 4, (2013). Link to article. 

George Lipsitz, “The Racialization of Space and the Spatialization of Race: Theorizing the Hidden Architecture of Landscape” in Landscape Journal 26:1, (2007) 10-23. Link to article.   

Gwendolyn C. Warren, Cindi Katz, and Nik Heynen, “Myths, Cults, Memories, and Revisions in Radical Geographic History: Revisiting the Detroit Geographical Expedition and Institute” in Spatial Histories of Radical Geography: North America and Beyond, edited by Trevor J. Barnes and Eric Sheppard. (John Wiley & Sons, 2019): pp.59-83. Link to article.

PROMPT

Cite specific examples from two of the readings as you respond to ONE of the following questions: 

• Are there assumptions at work in your own design proposals about who will (or should) inhabit a particular space? Feel free to connect the readings to your studio project in New London. 
• What assumptions do you see embedded in the training you’re receiving as a landscape architect, and how might they work to exclude people from the profession?
• What assumptions about need, access, and belonging did you see at work in the design, planning, and transformation of the Great Salt Cove?

As you respond, keep in mind the ways that disability, race, ethnicity, income, gender, and sexuality often intersect with each other to shape different people’s access to space and resources.