The Larger Landscape Conversation: The Design of Disability

Thursday, March 9, 7 - 8:30 pm
CALDERWOOD HALL

The Design of Disability convenes conversation on the design and planning of the public realm in relation to human capacities, civic aspirations, and bodily experience beyond access. Featuring Victor Calise, advocate for people with disabilities, author and professor Elizabeth Guffey, and artist and professor Sara Hendren.

The Larger Landscape Conversation is a recurring series that brings together visionaries across disciplines to discuss the intersection of creativity, lived experience, and social justice.

This program is moderated by Charles Waldheim, Ruettgers Curator of Landscape at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and Professor at Harvard Graduate School of Design.

Top image: Ally Schmaling, 2022

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

Victor Calise is director of global culture, equity, and inclusion at Walmart. He previously served as commissioner in the Mayor’s Office for People with Disabilities in New York City in the Bloomberg and DeBlasio administrations.

Elizabeth Guffey is professor of art history at SUNY Purchase where she coordinates the MA Program in modern and contemporary art, criticism, and theory. She is author of Designing Disability: Symbols, Spaces and Society and co-editor of Making Disability Modern.

Sara Hendren is an artist, design researcher, writer, and professor at Olin College of Engineering. She is the author of What Can a Body Do? How We Meet the Built World and curator of the Abler project.

Photo Credit: Freddie Hendren Funck

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TICKET INFORMATION

Advance tickets are required and include Museum admission. Adults $20, seniors $18, students $13, free for members and children 17 and under.

Seating in Calderwood Hall is first come, first served. Seating begins 45 minutes before the event. Late seating is not guaranteed.

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COVID-19 POLICY

Face masks, worn over the mouth and nose, are required for free and ticketed events in Calderwood Hall. In line with state and local guidance, we advise anyone who is unvaccinated, and encourage anyone who feels more comfortable, to wear a mask as they explore other areas of the museum.

ACCESSIBILITY

To request accessible or companion seating, or to inquire about other accommodations, please call the Box Office at 617 278 5156 in advance of the program.

Landscape and Horticulture public programs are supported by the Barbara E. Millen and Markley H. Boyer Endowment Fund. These programs also are supported in part by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, which is supported by the state of Massachusetts and the National Endowment for the Arts.