Aimi

The materials below are from Aimi’s 2014 presentation. Please visit Aimi’s website for their current work.


In this photo taken at the Denver airport, a moving walkway is blocked off with a ribbon barrier, on which appears the text: "Saving Energy for the Future." The walkway is on the right, moving toward the next terminal, while on the left, there is dark carpet and a view of the long walk to the next terminal, which spans the length of several more moving walkways. In this photo taken at the Denver airport, a moving walkway is blocked off with a ribbon barrier, on which appears the text: “Saving Energy for the Future.” The walkway is on the right, moving toward the next terminal, while on the left, there is dark carpet and a view of the long walk to the next terminal, which spans the length of several more moving walkways.

Using this image to discuss the relationship of sustainability to the built environment, Aimi Hamraie will discuss the ways that an understanding of sustainability premised on “Saving Energy for the Future” fails to achieve accessible futures and subsequently fails to consider issues of bodily energy expenditure and transport for all bodies in the present.

Click here for a Google Doc of Aimi’s presentation.

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Description of header image: A view upward through the tilted windows of the University of Michigan Law Library. The windows’ black mullions slant at angles through the photo frame. Between each mullioned segment is part of the view through the windows, composed of fragmented parallelograms of blue sky, pinkish-white clouds, leafy deciduous tree, and stone towers. A bird has pooped on one of the window panes. (Photo by Johnna Keller.)

Hello! We are the Sustaining Access Project, a group of designers, researchers, and activists who collaborate to explore the intersections of sustainability and accessibility.

This website began as an effort to enhance accessibility for a 2014 presentation at the Society for Disability Studies, titled “Social (In)Justices and Unlikely Allies: Questioning Sustainable Design in Architectural, Urban, Digital, and Academic Spaces.” Our intention was to provide an open-source and accessible space for presentation materials, as well as a “crip time” (non-linear space/time frame) venue for discussion.

Since that first project in 2014, we’ve added more materials to this site, and it is always in progress–so please bear with us! Feel free to add a comment or contact any of the members if you have questions.

Sincerely,

Aimi Hamraie

Johnna Keller

Margaret Price

Melanie Yergeau