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2023 Fall Lecture Series: Hansel Bauman

DEAFSPACE: Cultural Origins and Lessons on Inclusive Design for All


Date

August 15, 2023

Time

6:00 p.m.

Location

Cascieri Hall

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Cost

FREE

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Hansel Bauman by Diego Herrera.
Hansel Bauman. Photo by Diego Herrera.

This presentation promotes an alternative paradigm of barrier-free architecture as aesthetic inspiration in place of code compliance. The origins of DeafSpace—the socio-spatial dynamics of how deaf people inhabit and construct space to reflect their ways of being—will be shared, and its evolution as an exemplar of inclusive design for people across the spectrum of human diversity. Case studies illustrate how user-driven design processes result in more responsive spaces while building cultural agency and belonging for those historically left behind in the making of the places in which we all live.

Date

August 15, 2023

Time

6:00 p.m.

Location

Cascieri Hall

For More Info

communications@the-bac.edu

Cost

FREE

Categories

Events   Lecture  

Watch the Lecture Now

Watch the Lecture Now

About Hansel Bauman

DeafSpace Guidelines on socio-spatial patterns of “Datums and Rhythms “ provides a design strategy for the base of Gallaudet’s newest dormitory building designed by LTL Architects, Quinn Evens Architects. Photo by Prakash Patel. Courtesy LTL Architects.
DeafSpace Guidelines on socio-spatial patterns of "Datums and Rhythms" provides a design strategy for the base of Gallaudet’s newest dormitory building designed by LTL Architects, Quinn Evens Architects. Photo by Prakash Patel. Courtesy LTL Architects.

Hansel Bauman is a pioneer of DeafSpace design—architecture enabling deaf ways-of-being. From 2006 to 2019, he was the campus architect and co-director of the DeafSpace Project at Gallaudet University, developing and implementing design guidelines for buildings made by and for deaf users—for which he received the 2015 International Association of Universal Design, Gold Award. He lectures internationally with work featured at the Cooper Hewitt Museum, New York and in major publications such as Metropolis, The Economist, and Scientific American and advised the US Green Building Council on new LEED Pilot Credits for Inclusive Design. He is currently collaborating with New York based JSA/MIXdesign on intersectional, multi-sensory design methodologies.

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