DEI + AEC | Accessibility in the Built Environment and Beyond

Check out the recording from the August DEI + AEC: Accessibility in the Built Environment and Beyond.

This recording will:
- Introduce the concept of technoableism, drawing from disability narrative.
- Recognize the critical importance of disability expertise to architecture, building, and construction.
- Contextualize our understanding of disability in history.
- Discuss the intersectionality and diversity of experiences of being disabled and importance of listening to cross-disability community.
- Learn about planning for disability-forward futures.

About Ashley Shew
Ashley Shew is an associate professor of Science, Technology, and Society at Virginia Tech. She works in philosophy of technology, with emphasis on disability studies, animal studies, and emerging technologies and is particularly interested stories about humanity, technology, and disability. She is author of Animal Constructions and Technological Knowledge (2017) and Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement (2023). Her work has been featured in both scholarly journals and public-facing venues (and she’s been a guest on 12 different podcasts this past year :D). She is a proud founding member of both the Disability Alliance and Caucus at Virginia Tech and the Disability Resource Center of the New River Valley.