Constructing Differences: Recent Episodes
Julia Chou
Constructing Differences connects with disability and design justice communities through interviews and dialogue with academics, activists, architects, artists, and students. Individuals share their engagement with topics on or surrounding disability studies, feminist architecture theories, design justice, accessibility, and feminist solidarity.
Sofia Gutierrez is a second year at the Syracuse University School of Architecture, and serves on the E-board of the Syracuse Chapter of the National Organization of Minority Architects.
A. H. Reaume is a writer and activist who has won multiple awards for her feminist activism. She has an MA in Canadian Literature from the University of British Columbia and has been published in the Vancouver Sun, The Globe and Mail, USAToday, and currently resides in Vancouver.
Tanya Titchkosky is a Professor at the University of Toronto, Ontario Institute. She is a member of the Department of Social Justice Education. Titchkosky’s approach to Disability Studies is informed by cultural studies and interpretive sociology supported by versions of feminist theory, queer theory, and Black studies that take a phenomenological orientation.
A. H. Reaume is a writer and activist who has won multiple awards for her feminist activism. She has an MA in Canadian Literature from the University of British Columbia and has been published in the Vancouver Sun, The Globe and Mail, USAToday, and currently resides in Vancouver.
Bess Williamson is a historian of design and material culture with a particular interest in social and political concerns in design. She is currently an Associate Professor of Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she teaches a range of design history courses.
Shannon Finnegan is a disabled multidisciplinary artist who works to interrogate access and ableism. Finnegan practices artistic interventions such as the “Anti-Stairs Lounge” to protest inaccessible sites and to advocate for spaces of rest. Finnegan’s work has been featured at the Banff Center, the High Line, Tallinn Art Hall, Nook Gallery, and more.
Lia Margolis is a third year student at the Syracuse School of Architecture and the current president of the Syracuse Chapter of the National Organization of Minority Architects.
Rebecca Garden is an Associate Professor of Public Health & Preventive Medicine at SUNY Upstate Medical University. Her research and writing focuses on literary studies, disability studies, public health humanities, dementia and aging studies, structural inequalities and health disparities, and so much more.
Claire Noorhasan is a current student at Syracuse University majoring in Architecture and minoring in Disability Studies.
Seb Choe is a designer currently living in Charleston, South Carolina. Choe currently serves as Associate Director at Joel Sanders Architect, and oversees MIXdesign, an inclusive design branch of JSA.
Jay Dolmage is a Professor at the University of Waterloo in Canada, and writes about disability rights in his scholarship, service, and teaching. He is the Founding Editor of the Canadian Journal of Disability Studies and the Associate Chair of the Undergraduate Communication Outcome Initiative at Waterloo.