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Equity and Inclusion

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

Friday, September 18, 2026
8:30 AM - 12:00 PM PT
Location: Los Angeles Convention Center, Field Session Departure Area (South Lobby)
Ticket Purchase Required Public Transportation
2.50 PDH, LA CES/HSW
Ticket Price: $95 per person
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.