Length: 1 CEU
Topic: Sustainability / Climate
Delivery Mode: Online On-Demand
What's Included: Video, Quiz, & Certificate
Registration Fee: Members $50 | Intern $35 | Student $25 | Non-Member $75
This webinar is part of the RAIC 2025 Conference on Architecture!
The built environment has a part to play in removing, reducing, and mitigating experiences of exclusion from the everyday lived experiences of all people who use space. But amid an ever-evolving Inclusive design landscape, how can organizations ensure they are designing truly inclusive environments, where everyone is considered the intended occupant?
Enter Gensler’s research on optimizing inclusive design for a neurodiverse workplace. As our understanding of Inclusive Design expands to address a wider range of diversities, including variation in how our brains work, the focus is shifting from being concentrated on the experience of bodies in space to a more holistic view that encompasses both body and mind.
The session will discuss the latest research and take a deeper dive into inclusive design strategies for designing for neurodiversity, with a focus on sensory design, to explore how we can more intentionally create spaces to foster the conditions for broader experiences of inclusion, equity, and belonging.
By the completion of this session, participants will be able to:
Recognize recent evolutions in inclusive design and how designing for neurodiversity is situated within the broader context of inclusive design goals and strategies.
Discuss the different ways we process our environments – physical, cognitive, and social – and their implications for built space.
Identify the four ways our research is prompting us to think differently about inclusive design.
Describe the emerging field of sensory design the ways in which it’s being tested and applied to workplace environments.
Subject Matter Expert:
Kirima Isler
CPABE L1
Inclusive Design Strategist, Gensler Architecture and Design Canada Inc.
Kirima Isler is a Strategist and Inclusive Design Regional Champion for Gensler’s Northeast region. Specializing in accessibility and inclusive design for architectural and design projects across various sectors, Kirima’s work ranges from building inclusive design guidelines, to performing accessibility assessments of existing workplaces, and reviewing project work throughout the design process to assess its alignment with inclusive design goals.
With a background in History and Peace & Conflict Research, Kirima approaches design as a tangible way to address patterns of exclusion and inequity in our everyday practices and built environment, and leverages her background in research to champion experience-based strategies throughout the design process.
This webinar is in English. Closed captions have been provided in both English and French.
Pricing
Member: $50 / Non-Member: $75
Intern Member: $35 / Intern Non-Member: $75
Student: $25 (must be an RAIC student associate member)