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Topic
Labs for Liberation Lecture Series: Student Project Showcase. A presentation by the students of the design labs with commentary by Alex Hanna and Bess Williamson
Date & Time
Selected Sessions:
Jul 14, 2025 10:00 AM
Description
The Labs for Liberation Lecture series includes six-weeks of free, online, and accessible programming. There will be lectures and panel discussions with experts in critical disability studies and Black feminist disability approaches to design and technology in order to bridge many realms of thinking, knowing, and making.
The focus of this session will be the Design Lab Cohort presentations on the projects they have been working on for the previous five weeks.
Our subject experts Bess Williamson and Alex Hanna will comment on the projects while also sharing their pedagogical perspectives on analyzing, historicizing, and deconstructing design/tech projects.
Presenters
The first cohort of The L4L Summer Institute on Disability and Design Labs
Speakers
Alex Hanna, sociologist of race, gender, and class inequality in computational technologies, author of The AI Con, Director of Research at the Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR), and co-host of the Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 series.
Bess Williamson, design historian, author of Accessible America, Associate Professor of Design Studies at NC State University.