{"id":143,"date":"2010-05-19T09:02:03","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T13:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/udl-2010conference\/?page_id=143"},"modified":"2010-05-19T09:02:03","modified_gmt":"2010-05-19T13:02:03","slug":"113-deborah-lisi-baker","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/udl-2010conference\/session-notes-and-comments\/113-deborah-lisi-baker\/","title":{"rendered":"#113 &#8211; Deborah Lisi-Baker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Deborah Lisi-Baker<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Workshop #113<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Nothing About Us Without Us<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ripening, colors, plucked, picked, Johnny appleseed, fresh, oj,  orange!, florida, fresh,<\/p>\n<p>Exercise: pass around apple and orange<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>how if one is aware of one\u2019s environment \u2013 one can really be a part  of that environment, engaged in it<\/li>\n<li>This issue really goes into the larger concept of what it is to be  human and to be living in the world<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In the United States, people are living longer and so many face  disability in older age \u00e0 do not think that because the US has better  health care than some other areas, that there is less disability<\/p>\n<p>Deborah was wearing bike gloves for getting a quick grip on her  wheelchair \u2013 while at an international design conference in Rio de  Janiero a person came up to her and asked to take her photo \u2013 he had  designed the gloves, never intending ppl in wheelchairs to use them, but  was delighted to see this usage of his product<\/p>\n<p>One thing that was very exciting was technology that raises lines as  you create them, so you can experience a tactile understanding of the  design<\/p>\n<p>Deborah, via affiliation with the Institute for Human Centered  Design, has interviewed architects and designers who have disabilities \u2013  how it has effected their work and their understanding of the world.\u00a0  The institute has published a book on these interviews, which is  available at their website. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adaptenv.org\/\">http:\/\/www.adaptenv.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I liked this point (regarding a mentoring project between architects  w\/ disabilties and students w\/ disabilities): The point isn\u2019t to produce  a bunch of architects that are blind \u2013 but rather to combat the notion  that, \u2018Oh you\u2019re blind; you can\u2019t become an architect!<\/p>\n<p>Deborah also brought up a really great point that all of the senses  are interconnected \u2013 so the loss of one sense affects how the others  interrelate in order to continue to make sense of the world.<\/p>\n<p>We need to take the time to learn how we learn in order to understand  how to best help them<\/p>\n<p>Space is experienced differently for every user of it.\u00a0 Highlighted  through Deborah\u2019s interviews with architects \u2013 they have greater insight  into how space affects or is interpreted by the mind via the senses of  touch, smell, and sound.\u00a0\u00a0 These architects know how high the ceilings  are, how the heat\/ventilation systems are in buildings, without the  sense of sight.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAllowing fear and pride to help us make decisions will only keep us  stagnant in our lives.\u201d \u2013 a touching quote from a graduate of an  architecture program who is losing his sight.<\/p>\n<p>United Arab Emirates: even though others may see it as a backwards  place \u2013 have many ppl w\/ disabilities and common accommodations \u2013 ppl  don\u2019t stare at others with disabilities because they are used to it<\/p>\n<p>Institute for Human Centered Design \u2013 book available from them with  all of these architects and designers who have disabilities<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deborah Lisi-Baker Workshop #113 Nothing About Us Without Us Ripening, colors, plucked, picked, Johnny appleseed, fresh, oj, orange!, florida, fresh, Exercise: pass around apple and orange how if one is aware of one\u2019s environment \u2013 one can really be a &hellip; 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