Karen Braitmayer
is considered a leading expert in inclusive architecture. Its mission: to create a built environment in which everyone feels welcome - regardless of physical limitations, mobility or sensory needs. In 1993, she founded the consultancy Studio Pacifica. With her personal experience (she uses a wheelchair and hearing support) and her deep professional expertise, she combines empathy with technical know-how. That makes her efforts particularly powerful and relevant.
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1. Boek: Judy Heumann with Kristen Joiner - Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist
waarom? “This memoir, written by the “mother of the disability rights movement” herself, celebrates the intersection and importance of accessibility, advocacy, and social justice. Heumann was a tireless advocate for disability rights throughout her life and played a critical role in the fight for accessibility legislation.”
wat en wie? Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist is een memoires van Judith Heumann, geschreven met Kristen Joiner en in 2020 uitgegeven door Beacon Press. In Being Heumann vertelt Heumann hoe ze als activist met een beperking vocht voor onderwijs, werk en volwaardig burgerschap, en hoe haar verzet uitgroeide tot een nationale beweging voor disability rights.
2. Boek: Aimi Hamrale - Building Acces: Universal Design and the Politics of Disability
waarom? “Blending technoscience studies and design history with critical disability, race, and feminist theories, Building Access interrogates the historical, cultural, and theoretical contexts for these questions, offering a groundbreaking critical history of Universal Design.”
wat en wie? In Building Acces (2017) takes author, scholar, and active U.S. Access Board member, Hamraie a critical look at universal design.
3. Boek: Sasha Costanza -Chock - Design Justice: Community-led practices to build the worlds we need
waarom? This book asks the question, “What is the relationship between design, power, and social justice?” and offers a practical guide for shaping a truly inclusive design process, whether the design exists in an app or the built environment. The principles of design justice honor intersectionality by integrating practices from a diverse range of social movements.
wat en wie? Design Justice (2020) is written by dr. Sasha Costanza-Cook and explores the relationship between design and power.
4. Boek: Alice Wong - Disability Visibility: first-person stories from the twenty-first century
waarom? “Originally published in time to celebrate the 30th Anniversary of the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act, this collection of essays spans the broad viewpoints of the collective known as the disability community. The trials, the joys and, ironically, the humor around the way we engage with the world and the world engages with us. A window into our way of living....”
wat en wie? Disability Visibility (2020) by Alice Wong is a anthology edited and curated by American disability justice advocate and MacArthur Fellow Alice Wong. The anthology was based on Wong's Disability Visibility Project (DVP), an online community and oral history centered on promoting and amplifying disabled stories, media and culture. The anthology is a collection of essays by a variety of disabled authors about identity/identities, personal experiences, legislation, history, communication access, disability solidarity, justice and more.