2024-11-13T22:24:51-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/150239743/mass-design-group-s-jeffrey-mansfield-receives-50-000-grant-for-study-into-architecture-for-the-deaf Sean Joyner 2020-12-02T11:04:00-05:00 >2020-12-03T13:39:45-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/d3/d34c274f8bc56a543aa4ce1a726d4282.jpeg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>This week, Mansfield, a design director for MASS Design Group, was named a Disability Futures Fellow by the Ford Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. He&rsquo;s one of 20 artists around the country to receive the $50,000 grant, a new initiative and the only national, multidisciplinary prize for creators with disabilities.</p></em><br /><br /><p>Born deaf, Mansfield, according to&nbsp;<em>The Boston Globe,</em> "plans to use the award to further his Deaf Space Archive research into how the designs of 19th- and 20th-century schools for the deaf contributed to societal perceptions of deafness as a pathology &mdash; and what that did to deaf students. He travels the country, learning stories of deaf education."</p>