
Symposium: Noncompliant Bodies – Social Equity and Public Space
The discipline of architecture tends to overlook or actively exclude persons who fall outside white, male, heterosexual, able-bodied norms. This symposium, convened by Joel Sanders and Susan Stryker, assembles a cross-disciplinary group of designers and scholars to explore the relationship between architecture and the demands for social justice voiced by people who have been marginalized and oppressed on the basis of race, gender and disability. The symposium will examine how designers working in collaboration with experts from related disciplines can critique and transform one of three architectural types: restrooms, museums, and urban streets. The objective is to propose alternative futures that rethink the relationship between bodies and built environments in ways that better serve the goals of social equity.
Noncompliant Bodies complies with AIA Health, Safety and Welfare credits. All three sessions of the symposium have been approved as HSW courses for the AIA’s Continuing Education System.
Friday, April 6 at 2:00 p.m.
Panel 1: Restroom
Barbara Penner, The Bartlett, University College London
Sheila Cavanagh, York University
Susan Stryker, University of Arizona
Joel Sanders, Yale University
Terry Kogan, University of Utah
Quemuel Arroyo, NYC Department of Transportation
Friday, April 6 at 6:30 p.m.
Keynote
Jack Halberstam, Columbia University, in conversation with
Susan Stryker, University of Arizona
Saturday, April 7 at 10:00 a.m.
Panel 2: Museum
Joel Sanders, Yale University
Jennifer Tyburczy, UC Santa Barbara
Mabel Wilson, Columbia University
Mario Gooden, Columbia University
Charles Renfro, DS+R
Stuart Comer, Museum of Modern Art
Saturday, April 7 at 2:30 p.m.
Panel 3: Urban Streets and Plazas
Jos Boys, Northumbria University
Clare Sears, San Francisco State University
Elijah Anderson, Yale University
Keller Easterling, Yale University
Rashad Shabazz, Arizona State University
Alison Kafer, Southwestern University
Robert Adams, University of Michigan