Join ACD for the first Core Community Conversation of 2024 to hear from Kelsey Zlevor, Chicago-based planner and ACD Board Member.
Please note: This virtual event is on Tuesday, May 7. The newsletter email listed it as a Thursday by mistake.
MENTAL LANDSCAPES
Loneliness and social isolation are growing problems in the United States and can be connected to psychological disabilities. Public places can be great spaces to address this issue, but most planners, architects and other placemaking professionals do not know how to design places for people suffering from depression, social isolation or loneliness.
In this interactive conversation and workshop, get ideas for better place design and ways to effectively engage people with psychological disabilities.
About Kelsey Zlevor:
With a background in creative writing, environmental science, and urban planning, Kelsey is a spatial strategist and design researcher at the convergence of planning policy, climate justice, and social change. Kelsey is the keeper of Mental Landscapes, an on-going body of independent trauma-informed research and scholarship that centers psychological disability in park and public space design. Named the Fall 2023 Artist-in-Residence at Allerton Park and Retreat Center in Monticello, Illinois, Kelsey has facilitated design workshops around depression with participants ages 23 to 93. A SXSW 2024 speaker, she presented Mental Landscapes in "Structures of Feelinging: Imagining Disability as Design Lens" alongside Alexa Vaughn’s practice-based research, DeafScape, to foster imagination around inclusive public space design futures through the lens of disability. Kelsey is a Senior Associate at Muse, a Chicago-based woman-owned planning firm, and holds a master's of Community and Regional Planning from the University of Oregon and a B.A. in Environmental Science from the University of Iowa.
https://www.kelseyzlevor.com/
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