MASS Design Group's Jeffrey Mansfield receives $50,000 grant for study into architecture for the deaf

2020-12-02T11:04:00-05:00

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’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.

Born deaf, Mansfield, according to The Boston Globe, "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 — and what that did to deaf students. He travels the country, learning stories of deaf education."

The nuanced design of deaf spaces

2016-03-03T19:12:00-05:00

The communication and orientation styles of the deaf or hearing impaired come with their own set of design guidelines, especially regarding shared or educational spaces. Gallaudet University, a school for the deaf/hearing impaired in Washington, DC has been profiled before for its attention to architecting deaf space, and now gets the Vox / Curbed explainer treatment on the particulars of deaf design.

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