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.
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.
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.