FRI-FS-09: Disability as Design Lens: An Audit-workshop Exploring Accessibility, Joy, and Mental Well-being

Field Session Leader(s)

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  Alexa Vaughn, ASLA (she/her/hers)

  Landscape Designer, Accessibility Specialist, PhD Student
  Sasaki / UCLA
  Los Angeles, CA
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  Deanna Lynn, ASLA

  Landscape Designer
  Wild Land Workshop
  Marina, CA

Field Session Presenter(s)

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  Kelsey Zlevor (she/her/hers)

  Senior Planner
  Mental Landscapes / Epstein
  La Grange Park, Illinois
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  Jill Moore (she/her/hers)

  Inclusive Play Specialist
  Landscape Structures
  Golden Valley, Minnesota
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  Elliott Kenney, ASLA (she/they)

  Landscape Designer
  Freelance
  Silver Spring, Maryland

Gloria Molina Grand Park/ RIOS

Visit Gloria Molina Grand Park for an interactive audit-workshop led by facilitators with a diversity of lived experiences. Attendees will learn how to design inclusive and joyful public spaces for people with disabilities and mental illness, with accessibility-focused design strategies for wellbeing.

Includes metro pass, audit supplies.

Learning Outcomes:

• Develop a better understanding of how to include a diversity of disabled lived experiences in the design process through frameworks of auditing and workshopping.
• Engage in an interactive workshop to connect your personal narrative and relationship to nature with the Mental Landscapes framework of memories of ease, observation, affinity for nature, and awe.
• Evaluate how access needs can be integrated into landscape design by engaging directly with Grand Park, and discuss strategies for creating more inclusive, accessible, and supportive public spaces.
• Take away new understandings and strategies for how to directly translate personal narratives collected during the design process into the creation of spaces that foster joy and mental wellness.