Disability, Deafness and Neurodiversity workshop: Crip and Civic Pedagogies

This workshop, organised by Jordan Whitewood-Neal, will expand explorations of Crip and Civic Pedagogies and the role of collaboration with organisations and collectives beyond the academic institution. The workshop will include an introductory screening and followed by co-facilitated activity with The DisOrdinary Architecture Project and XYZ Projects, exploring storytelling and space through crip, queer, and ageing narratives.

Please note: This listing is for in-person attendance only. To join online, please refer to the Zoom registration details on the .

Workshop access considerations

• Each workshop will begin with a short, welcoming access statement
• We will acknowledge what the space can and cannot offer
• We will encourage participants to be present in whatever way is comfortable for them
• We will emphasise that people are welcome to create their own access, and that this can be done together
• The majority of the Zaha Hadid Foundation building is step free, with a mixture of hard and soft flooring. There is a small step up to the quiet room.
• There are accessible and gender-neutral toilets.
• There is on-site parking, although this is limited, so please let us know if you are planning to use this.
• There is a 7cm step from the street to our main entry gate, and a small lip on the main entrance. There is a step-free alternative near the on site parking.

The Bartlett School of Architecture research cluster for Disability, Deafness, and Neurodiversity is intended as a long-term, internationally connected centre for researching the intersections of Disability, Deafness, and Neurodiversity within the built environment and advancing disability praxis in architectural education, scholarship, and beyond. The Cluster works on outward-reaching interdisciplinary research and network building engaging with students, staff, and external disability-led organisations.

Over recent years, attention to the historical, theoretical, practical, and pedagogical intersections of these embodiments and architecture has begun to establish a new field of inquiry. This new field draws from Critical Disability Studies, Anthropology, Science, Society & Technology Studies, and many others – underpinning the multi- and inter-disciplinary nature of considering space through the lens of different bodyminds.

These considerations are not peripheral concerns but instead central to any meaningful discussion about space. They remain a topic that has not been consistently addressed within the discipline of architecture, and this research cluster addresses this shortfall by exploring how disability is experienced, produced, and understood both spatially and socially, and how it provides new theoretical, practical, and methodological ways forward.

Conceived and developed as a collaboration between the Bartlett School of Architecture and the Royal Danish Academy’s Centre for Spatial Inclusion, this inaugural series of public events is made up of two online seminars and two workshops. The first seminar and workshop will focus on Civic Crip Pedagogies, the second seminar and workshop will focus on Disabling the Archive. The events will be documented, archived, and shared as online resources to inform pedagogical development across The Bartlett, the UK, and beyond. Collaborating with disabled practitioners and organisations, all events will foreground current research and design practices on the intersections of bodyminds, race, queerness, ageing, pedagogy and architecture within and beyond the institution.

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/events/2026/may/disability-deafness-and-neurodiversity-architecture-series

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