Cool Info streams

RantWoman is posting here links to three activities she has had the opportunity to participate in with hopes that other readers will find these items interesting.

First look here for updates and discussion related to the #FlattenInaccessibility study.  RantWoman means to post some comments but does not want to lose track of the link in the meantime.
FlattenInaccessibility


Next  CripCamp   #CripCampVirtual
Here is the link from the most recent session. RantWoman has not checked but is pretty sure there should be options to sign up for further sessions.
Crip Camp June 7th Recording and ...


Finally, the UW Symposium on Pandemic Urbanism #PandemicUrbanism
Although only two weeks have passed since the Pandemic Urbanism symposium,
it feels like much longer, as we process the continued toll of the pandemic
and the persistence of systemic violence and racism against black and brown
communities.

In the wake of our convening, we as organizers wish to dedicate the work
and energy of the symposium to those who have died of COVID-19 and other
conditions created by the pandemic. We send our deepest condolences to
their families and communities.

We also want to express our profound gratitude to everyone for your ideas,
insights, and grace in a time of great uncertainty and upheaval. The
symposium brought together academics, practitioners, activists, and other
community members to discuss COVID-19 and cities through the intersecting
lenses of health, education, design, economic policy, technology, public
space, transportation, social inequality, racial oppression, and climate
change.

More than 800 attendees joined the event from around the globe, including
participants in Indonesia, Denmark, Brazil, Canada, Japan, the UK, and Hong
Kong, among many others. Although the symposium was conceived and organized
in just two months, the process has pointed to longer-term implications. It
has shed valuable light not only on the nature of pandemic urbanism, but
also on the future of collaborations across disciplines through diverse
platforms and unconventional frameworks.

We look forward to continuing the critical conversations that interrogate
the nature of cities, their vulnerabilities, and resiliencies. To that end,
closed-captioned videos of the symposium's three plenary sessions are now
available through our website, http://pandemicurbanism.com, hosted by the
University of Washington's College of Built Environments Visual Resource
Collection at https://vimeo.com/uwcbe. Recordings of the remaining sessions
will be posted in the coming weeks. We are also exploring the possibility
of publishing a compilation of the work shared.

We encourage you to share feedback and resources with us, and to keep in
touch with the virtual community that was convened for the symposium. We
also challenge you to move forward in your own work through and beyond the
pandemic with a commitment to shaping a more equitable future.

Yours in solidarity and hope,
Evan, Peter, Katherine, Lan, and Elizabeth



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*University of Washington Pandemic Urbanism Symposium*
pandemicurbanism.com  #pandemicurbanism  #CBEchronicles

*2020 Co-organizers:*
Evan H. Carver ehc@uchicago.edu
Peter T. Dunn ptdunn@uw.edu
Katherine Idziorek kidzi@uw.edu
Lan T. Nguyen lan8@uw.edu
Elizabeth Umbanhowar umbanhow@uw.edu