How can Black feminist disability studies and Critical Access Studies better inform practices of disability-centered and accessible design? The Labs for Liberation Lecture Series (recorded in summer 2025), offered a wide range of approaches to this question.
You can now find the following lectures on the Critical Design Lab’s YouTube Channel.
- Introduction: The 2025 Labs for Liberation Summer Institute on Disability and Design brought together hundreds of disabled designers, researchers, and artists from five continents. This video introduces the summer institute lectures and lab projects.
- Black Feminist Disability Framework and Critical Access Studies: Lectures and discussion with Moya Bailey and Aimi Hamraie.
- Technoableism, Cyborgs, and Infrastructure: A lecture and panel discussion with Ashley Shew and Damien Patrick Williams.
- Design Friction and Access Washing: Lectures and discussion with Imani Barbarin and Sara Hendren.
- The Power of the Wild Disabled Idea: Lecture and discussion with Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha.
- Resilience is a Social Practice: Resilience is a Social Practice. A Performance Lecture by Jeff Kasper with commentary by Sasha Costanza-Chock.
You can also find a short documentary film from our pre-institute fellowship retreat at Allied Media Project’s Love Building in Detroit Michigan, held in May of 2025.
And if you are looking for more resources on the intersections of disability and design, check out the recent collaboration between the Critical Design Lab and the Disordinary Architecture Project: Disability Meets Architecture!
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