Wed, Apr 27, 2022, 6 –7:30 pm Online, Central Time Annual Event Image How do we address inequities within design by and for the disabled community? What creative opportunities does disability bring to design? How can we ensure disabled ingenuity is recognized and comprehensively applied? Join us for a discussion with MCAD President Sanjit Sethi and prominent advocates who lead in the field of disability and design. The MCAD President’s Lecture is a biannual series that provides a platform for design practitioners who are change agents for a more inclusive future. The conversation will put a critical lens on normalized structures within design and center on disability as a creative, disruptive practice. The topics will include design pedagogy and curriculum, intersectional community engagement, and disability strategy for political campaigns and major companies. Panelists Jeffrey Mansfield Principal, MASS Design Group Jeffrey Yasuo Mansfield leads MASS Design Group’s Deaf Space and Disability Justice Lab, which leverages the design process to uplift the lived experience of Deaf and Disabled communities. Mansfield is a recipient of the Ford and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s Disability Futures fellowship, a John W. Kluge Fellow at the Library of Congress, and co-author of The Architecture of Health and a co-editor of the firm's first monograph, Justice is Beauty. He has taught design studios at the University of Michigan and Harvard Graduate School of Design. Deaf since birth, Mansfield’s current research explores the formation of Deaf and Disability spaces as expressions of cultural resistance. Sky Cubacub Founder, Rebirth Garments Sky Cubacub (They/Them/Xe/Xem/Xyr) is a non-binary xenogender and disabled Filipinx queer from Chicago. They are the creator of Rebirth Garments, a line of wearables for trans, queer and disabled people of all sizes and ages, which started in summer 2014. Sky is the editor of the Radical Visibility Zine, which celebrates disabled queer life, with an emphasis on joy. Additionally they are the editor on “Cancel & Gretel” section on ethics and inclusion at literary fashion magazine Just Femme and Dandy. They have had over 45 fashion performances and lectured at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Rhode Island School of Design, the University of Utah, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Northwestern University. Cubacub was named 2018 Chicagoan of the Year by the Chicago Tribune and was a 2019/2020 Kennedy Center Citizen Artist and a Disability Futures Fellow. Moderator Joshua Halstead Joshua Halstead is an epistemic activist working at the intersection of critical disability studies, design pedagogy, and community organizing. A recognized contributor to disability design discourse, they seek to unsettle and rupture normative systems of thought by centering marginalized perspectives. Halstead has been an invited lecturer in academic and industry settings—from Stanford to Google—and is co-author of the book Extra Bold: A Feminist, Inclusive, Anti-Racist, Non-Binary Field Guide for Graphic Designers. Their current project, Cripjoy, is a transnational, majority-BIPOC community of practice focused on reworlding mental health through an intersectional, anti-ableist, and anti-sanist lens. RSVP × Status message Sorry… This form is closed to new submissions.