David Gissen, who also speaks in Toronto on the evening of September 28 as part of the Daniels Faculty’s fall lecture series, presents the ideas at the fore of The Architecture of Disability, his newly published book which situates experiences of impairment as a new foundation for the built environment.

With its provocative proposal for “the construction of disability,” the book fundamentally reconsiders how we conceive of and experience disability in our world. A professor of Architecture and Urban History at The New School University/Parsons School of Design, Gissen will be joined by GSD alum Sara Hendren for a conversation on how we might look beyond traditional notions of accessibility to positively reimagine the roots of architecture.