Imagining (dis)topia: Community Work in Disability Love - The Phyllis M. Taylor Center for Social Innovation and Design Thinking (original) (raw)

SISE4950: disABILITY Class Spring 2020 was a class offered in the 2020 Spring Semester as an elective in Tulane School of Architecture’s minor Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship (SISE). The class, referenced as the authors of this submission, consisted of eleven students and four professors. Five of the co-authors (four students and one faculty) have chosen to openly identify as disabled in the creation of this work. Of the fifteen co-authors: all are affiliated with Tulane University, thus share a positionality in higher education affiliation (if not in equal access or inclusion in its benefits); eleven use “she/her” pronouns; two 2 use “they/them” pronouns; two use “he/him” pronouns; all consider the United States home; we did not collect how people identify in terms of class or belief status, but our course conversations suggest representation from different classes and religious affiliation; we did not collect information on race, but we should have done so (without exact numbers on self-identification, we can share that the class identifies either predominantly or exclusively as white). Students represent a diverse range of majors, minors, and academic programs. The faculty represent three different schools at Tulane (Newcombe-Tulane College, School of Architecture, and School of Medicine).