Disability Meets Design: Hack Your Home with Laura Mauldin

Tickets for this event include museum admission. If you’d like to read more about the event or purchase a ticket, you can find more information on the Cooper Hewitt calendar through our website: Disability Meets Design: Hack Your Home with Laura Mauldin.

Held in celebration of NYCxDesign, this program presents tactics and strategies for making our homes more accessible for ourselves and our loved ones. Led by Laura Mauldin, professor, author, and founder of the site DisabilityAtHome.Org, the program includes a presentation followed by a hands-on workshop inviting participants to identify and take action toward making a more accessible world, one home at a time. This program is offered in conjunction with Making Home—Smithsonian Design Triennial, currently on view at Cooper Hewitt.

Accessibility & What to Expect:

• Format: The program will begin with a brief welcome, then the speaker will give a short presentation followed by a hands-on workshop, including time to ask questions and interact with other participants.
• About the space: This program will take place in Cooper Hewitt’s Lecture Room on the ground floor of the museum. It is fully wheelchair accessible. There will be seating. There is an accessible restroom on the ground floor. Read more about accessibility at Cooper Hewitt.
• Accommodations: The program will have live CART captioning and an ASL interpreter. If we can provide any accessibility services to support your participation, email us at CHEducation@si.edu or let us know when you register. Please make your request as far in advance as possible—preferably at least ten days before the program date.

• Recording: This workshop will not be recorded.