With the 30th anniversary of the Americans with Disability Act approaching, discussions that examine where design and accessibility intersect have increased in frequency. 

In June 2019, for example, OLIN Labs' hosted a lecture series covering a range of topics relating to the interconnected issues of inclusion and access. 

There was the Intro to Disability and the Built Environment, a lecture by Dr. Victor Pineda, founder and president of WorldENABLED, an educational non-profit that promotes the rights and dignities of persons with disabilities. The lecture asked: "what can we do as landscape architects and planners to design more accessible public places, to better include stakeholders with disabilities in the design process, and to understand how public policy can deeply influence Universal Design."

Another lecture, Design for Autism and Neurodivergence: Shaping the Sensory Landscape by People Lab member, Danielle Toronyi, "introduced designers to the Autistic and Neurodivergent community/ies, clarified prevalent misinformation and misrepresentations in the media, and described the community's specific spatial and sensory needs," according to the OLIN Labs website.

And finally, the series held a third lecture titled, Deafscape: Applying Deafspace to Landscape given by Alexa Vaughn building on her research that appeared in GroundUp Journal (Issue 07) in 2018.