Nothing About Us Without Us: Empowering Inclusive Design - 1.25 PDH (LA CES/HSW)

Nothing About Us Without Us: Empowering Inclusive Design - 1.25 PDH (LA CES/HSW)

Includes a Live Web Event on 04/22/2025 at 1:00 PM (EDT)

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Engage with three consultants collaborating as a successful, highly effective and nationally recognized multi-disciplinary accessibility and inclusion team using legislation as a baseline, going beyond to explore and push possibilities for a more accessible built environment, sharing examples for practitioners to strengthen their creative and inclusive design muscles.

Learning Outcomes:

  • Recognize the lens through which you see the world and how to recognize and articulate others’.
  • Build project feedback loops that widen designers’ perspectives, gather meaningful community feedback, and minimize inherent biases.
  • Learn best practices and intentionality in designing and advocating for a more inclusive and accessible built environment.
  • Identify potential pitfalls to avoid between inclusive design and implementation.

Note: This webinar was originally presented as part of ASLA’s 2024 conference. Please check your LA CES PDH record (under the "Professional Development" tab in your ASLA member account on asla.org) if you are not sure whether you've already earned PDH for this presentation. 

Amanda Bailey, ASLA, PLA

Senior Landscape Architect

MxM Landscape Architecture

Amanda Bailey, PLA, ASLA with MxM Landscape Architecture works tirelessly to bend the built environment toward justice. She utilizes her training as a landscape architect, urban designer, design-builder, and artist to deliver places that empower people to thrive. Amanda brings the designer’s greatest tools to each project: empathy, humility, and a probing curiosity about the community’s hopes, needs and aspirations. Her passion lies in listening whole-heartedly, investing in client-focused outcomes, and impacting people’s well-being. Her depth of experience in physical and mental health, inclusivity, and accessibility cultivates her inclusive project management style while designing constructible and maintainable civic spaces.

Karen L. Braitmayer, FAIA

Founding Principal

Studio Pacifica, Ltd.

Karen provides the unique combination of personal experience as a registered Architect and member of the disabled community. She has made accessibility consulting and design services her focus area since 1990. Karen serves local governments, architects, engineers, companies, and individuals concerned with complying with Federal laws and State codes, and creating spaces that work for the unique needs of individuals. Karen is a nationally known speaker/educator whose presentations dive deep into the outcome of generations of disability activism, legislative history impacting the architectural profession, and project examples in which architects chose to create noteworthy designs enhanced by accessibility requirements.

Peggy Martinez, ADAC

Principal

Creative Inclusion

Peggy has worked in disability accessibility and inclusion for all while focusing on the needs of the blindness/low vision community since 1996. In 2015, she launched Creative Inclusion, responding to requests from designers and planners to share her professional and lived experience, expanding her solutions-oriented approach to wayfinding, walkability, entertainment, and recreation. Creative Inclusion combines existing legislation and best practices to develop customized accessibility solutions promoting safety, independence, enjoyment, and dignity, enhancing projects from concept through completion. Peggy teaches accessibility and inclusion strategies, so people of all abilities receive the highest quality experience when interacting with their chosen environments.

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