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Critical Disability Studies Working group meeting, wide angle photo

Image Description: A wide angle shot of a group meeting in a grey-walled, open-space room, with large windows allowing daylight from the back. There are about 20 people are seated around several black tables that have been pushed together. To the left is someone sitting on the ground typing on a laptop and in the foreground of the right we see the side profile of a dark haired individual with a ponytail. To the left there is an empty stroller and to the right side there is a white board. Image credits, Arseli Dokumaci, 2015.

Sketch of the lab's floor plan imagined by Arseli

Image Description: A white hand drawn map of a space with orange, green and purple labels. On the left, there is a square indicated as "washrooms". Juxtaposed to that is a rectangular indicated as "storage". There are handwritten notes scattered within the image. Some of them are cropped, some are not legible. Image credits, Arseli Dokumaci, 2019.

Architect drawing of the lab's floor plan

Image Description: A bird's eye view floor plan divided into four sections by colour in the following order from left to write: a green rectangular area titled “MAIN LAB SETUP” (with a wheelchair in between a table marked 3D Printer and a sink); an orange coloured section titled “AFFORDANCE MAKERS STATION” (with a square table surrounded by two wheelchairs and two chairs); a yellow section titled “MEDIA MAKERS WORKSTATION” (with a rectangular table divided into six sections with two wheelchairs and four chairs opposite one another); an L-shaped blue space marked “ACCESS EXCHANGE EVENTS” that begins below the yellow section and wraps around it to the right. This space contains a resting area indicated in red, a wheelchair accessible door, and four rectangular tables with chairs and wheelchairs around them. Image credits, Marosi Troy architects, 2020.

About

Disability is complex, diverse, fluid, and so are our access needs. At the AIM LAB, access is in-the-making.
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Location

The AIM Lab has both a physical and a virtual presence, and its physical space is designed to enable hybrid forms of collaboration. 

The AIM Lab is physically located in the ground floor of Communication and Journalism building at Concordia’s beautiful and spacious Loyola Campus. Currently undergoing construction and renovation in collaboration with architects and consultants, it is destined to be the first lab at Concordia to be designed with comprehensive accessibility as a goal from the outset. 

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Land Acknowledgement

The Access in the Making Lab (AIM Lab) is situated on the unceded lands of the Kanien’kehá:ka Nation in Tio’tia:ke (Montreal, QC). Today, this land is home to a diverse population of Indigenous and other peoples. Located at Concordia University’s Loyola campus, our lab aims to provide a space for intersectional, decolonial, and disability justice-focused projects. As scholars, makers, and activists who work at the intersections of Critical Disability and Media Studies, we acknowledge the social, political, and cultural disablements of colonial violence and Indigenous dislocation.

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This website serves as a temporary virtual hub for the forthcoming Access in the Making Lab at Concordia University in Montreal, QC, Canada. A permanent, accessible, and collectively designed website will replace this venue in the coming months. We value the input of our community members and welcome all questions, concerns, and accessibility suggestions. Please feel free to contact us at info[@]accessinthemaking [dot] ca

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