Bringing together a panel of disability activists, academics, architects and designers, the Garden Museum and the Architecture Foundation collaborate on this event to discuss the relationship between disability, climate and space.
The systemic and urgent attention required to address climate change can be seen as rooted in disability discourse, in which disabled communities are both impacted and created through climatic changes.
In this evening panel discussion, Crip Climates will look to the metaphoric and literal connections between the impairment, exploitation and violence directed towards both landscapes and bodies, creating both debility or disabled ecologies in the process.
The event will be structured around co-producing a propositional syllabus for said disabled ecologies – asking the question, what do we need to learn about disabilities relationship to climate, land, urban health, infrastructures of care and the built environment.
Chairs:
Jordan Whitewood-Neal, Dis & Quality of Life Foundation
Poppy Levison, RCA & DisOrdinary Architecture Project
Speakers:
Jos Boys, DisOrdinary Architecture Project & Matrix Feminist Design Cooperative
Kaiya Waerea, Sticky Fingers Publishing & Access Power Visibility
Charlie Hertzog-Young, Researcher, Activist and Author of the book ‘Spinning Out’
This event has been curated by Jordan Whitewood-Neal, Poppy Levison and Amy Young.
Crip Climates has kindly been supported by the Marchus Trust and the Garden Museum.
Access Statement:
Transport:
The Garden Museum is located 0.7 miles from Vauxhall train station, 0.8 miles from Waterloo station and 0.5 miles from Lambeth North station. Bus services connect between Vauxhall station, Waterloo station and the Garden Museum.
There is no parking at the Garden Museum, but paid parking is available nearby on Lambeth High Street and at the Novotel on Lambeth Road.
Arrival:
When arriving at the Garden Museum for Crip Climates, we will be using the Garden Cafe entrance which has level access from Lambeth Road. The door is double in width and opens automatically. Once inside you will move straight through past the courtyard and then turn left through another set of double doors into the Nave. There is a ramp with a gentle incline that takes you down to the seating for the event. Soft floor cushions will be available at the front and chair seating to the rear. An accessible WC is located next to the courtyard. The Garden Museum welcomes guide, hearing and assistance dogs.
Deaf/Hard of Hearing:
The event will be supported by two BSL Interpreters in person and seating will be reserved in close proximity. In addition, the live-streaming of the event will be posted online afterwards and include live-captions and BSL interpretation. The event space will be organised to ensure clear lines of sight to the interpreters.
At the Garden Museum reception point, there is a hearing assistance system. This system is a portable loop. The hearing assistance system is not signed.
Breakout Spaces:
The event will take place in the Nave of the Garden Museum. Smaller rooms like the Courtyard and Learning Centre will be available on the night, providing quieter spaces for the audience. The Museum’s exhibitions will also be open throughout the event.
Filming and Livestreaming:
Crip Climates will be livestreamed, with in person BSL Interpretation. A recording will also be available following the event, with BSL Interpretation and captioned transcription.
Speakers
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Jos Boys
Jos Boys
Jos is a lifelong design activist. She studied architecture at the Bartlett in London in the 1970s, and was one of the co-founders of Matrix feminist design co-operative. Since then she has been a journalist, academic, researcher, writer, photographer and artist. More recently she co-founded The DisOrdinary Architecture Project with disabled artist Zoe Partington, to bring disabled people’s creativity and expertise into built environment education and practice; and has been leading on developing an online open access Matrix archive.
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Kaiya Waerea
Kaiya Waerea
Kaiya Waerea is a writer, designer and publisher from Aotearoa, now living in London. His research is concerned with crip feminist methodologies and indigenous queer/trans print publishing histories. Kaiya’s writing has been featured in How to Sleep Faster (Arcadia Missa), Counter Signals 5: Systems and their Discontents (Other Forms), Errant Journal: Learning from Ancestors and others.
Alongside Sophie Paul, Kaiya is a founder of Sticky Fingers Publishing, an intradependant feminist press based in south east London. They began publishing together six years ago out of a shared concern for what knowledge feels like. Since then, Sticky Fingers Publishing has become a site for experimental non-fiction exploring queer subjectivity, the erotics of knowledge production, and the materiality of language.
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Jordan Whitewood-Neal
Jordan Whitewood-Neal
Jordan Whitewood-Neal is an architectural researcher, designer and educator working at the intersections of architectural history, design pedagogy, critical disability studies, and spatial justice. His research has focused on disabled history at the Architectural Association, exploring the rhetoric of Home and reliability and critiquing the place of disability, care, and domesticity within architectural education. Jordan works as a Researcher at the Quality of Life Foundation and currently co-leads a Design Think Tank at the London School of Architecture revolving around night time community infrastructure and disability in London. In 2022 he co-founded disability-led research collective Dis with James Zatka-Haas, exploring disability, crip storytelling, and the built environment.
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Poppy Levison
Poppy Levison
Poppy Levison is a designer, researcher and disability activist working across the creative industries. Her lived experience as a blind woman gives her a particular interest and expertise in, the politics of inclusive design and accessibility, architecture’s tendency to fixate on the visual rather than the experiential and the accessibility of architecture education. She is in her second year as a Young Trustee of the Architecture Foundation and is an advisory board member of the DisOrdinary Architecture Project. Before starting her master’s in architecture at the Royal College of Art, she worked at DSDHA and taught at the London School of Architecture with a focus on Spatial Justice.
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Charlie Hertzog-Young
Charlie Hertzog-Young
Charlie Hertzog Young is a researcher, writer and award-winning activist. A proudly mad bipolar double amputee, he has worked for the New Economics Foundation, the Royal Society of Arts, the Good Law Project, the Four Day Week Campaign and the Centre for Progressive Change, as well as the UK Labour Party under three consecutive leaders. Charlie has spoken at the LSE, the UN and the World Economic Forum. He studied at Harvard, SOAS and Schumacher College and has written for The Ecologist, The Independent, Novara Media, Open Democracy and The Guardian.
