Critical Design Lab

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Disabled artists, designers, and researchers using disability cultural methods to do critical design. https://criticaldesignlab.com/

Slide says Contra podcast, audio description, episode 54, with Kelsie Acton and Aimi Hamraie, stories from the remote access archive. The background is orange with computer circuit and blue confetti graphics
Slide says Contra podcast, audio description, episode 53, with India Harville, stories from the remote access archive. The background is orange with computer circuit and blue and purple confetti graphics
Slide says Contra podcast, audio description, episode 52, with Brian Lobel, stories from the remote access archive. The background is orange with computer circuit and blue confetti graphics
Text says Contra podcast, Cripping Pandemic Learning in Higher Education, episode 51, Remote access Archive Highlight. The slide is purple with pink, red, orange, yellow, and green highlights
Slide says Contra podcast, audio description, episode 50, with Katie Goldfinch, stories from the remote access archive. The background is orange with computer circuit and blue confetti graphics
Text says Contra podcast, epsisode 49, Remote access Archive Highlight. The slide is purple a yellow and blue QR code with the text "Crips for eSims for Gaza, End to Genocide."
Image description: slide says Contra podcast, audio description, episode 48, with sky cubacub, stories from the remote access archive. The background is orange with computer circuit and blue confetti graphics
Image: text says Contra podcast, Olmstead Quality of Life Survey, Minnesota, episode 47, Remote access Archive Highlight. The slide is purple with red, orange, yellow, and green highlights
Image description: slide says Contra podcast, audio description, episode 46, with moira williams, stories from the remote access archive. The background is orange with computer circuit and blue confetti graphics
Image: text says Contra podcast, the Glitch Realm, episode 45, Remote access Archive Highlight. There is a screenshot of inside a blue, green, and grey virtual world, with two people appearing on screens in the front of a space surrounded by avatars. There is a backwards green question mark symbol in the bottom. The slide is light purple with yellow and red highlights
Image description: slide says Contra podcast, audio description, episode 43, with Susan Molloy, stories from the remote access archive. The background is orange with computer circuit and blue confetti graphics
[Image: text says Contra podcast, Communication First, episode 43, Remote access Archive Highlight. There are screenshots of two news headlines. One says "Coalition Urges Virginia Governor to Prevent Discrimination Against Patients with Disabilities." Another says "National Security Reveals Students with Communication Disabilities Are Being Denied Safe Access to Education." The slide is light purple with orange, yellow, blue, green, and white highlights]
[Image description: slide says Contra podcast, audio description, episode 42, with Thomas Reid, stories from the remote access archive. The background is orange with computer circuit and blue confetti graphics]
[Image description: Photo of Alice Wong on a remote video device, at shoulder height with President Obama who is standing in his office with others behind him. The slide says Contra podcast, episode 41, Alice Wong goes to the White house, Remote Access Archive Highlight.]
Text says Contra podcast, podcasting and disability culture, episode 40, with Qudsiya Naqui, Stories from the Remote Access Archive. Background is orange with circuitry and blue confetti graphics
text says Contra podcast, episode 39, UCLA hybrid strike, Remote Access Archive highlight. Image shows a hallway papered with strike posters and a sign that says "Academia Kills." There is also a cooler and some other items. But no people.
Text says Contra podcast, feminism, disability, and email, episode 38, with corbett o'toole, stories from the remote access archive. The background is orange with circuitry and confetti graphics.
[Image description: neon green slide with black and white text says "are you a student, designer, or activist invested in designing a more accessible world? Join us for the summer institute on disability and design. July 9-July 18, 2025. ASL, CART, Virtual. Apply at labsforliberation.org. In the background is a graphic symbol of a circuit]
Announcement of episode. Says Contra podcast, episode 37, the Toomey Gazette, Remote Access Archive highlight. The background image is a collage of hand-drawn images from the Toomey Gazette, including wheelchairs and tools
[Image description: light text on dark background says Mapping Access toolkit by Aimi Hamraie and the Critical Design Lab, Graphic version by Paul DeFazio.” In the background is a mind map web with lines and circles. One line leads to an exit sign.]
[Image description: quote from Hector Ramirez in episode 36 of the Contra* podcast, stories from the Remote Access Archive They say, Technology is one of our main tools. As disabled folks, we are its innovators and greatest practitioners.” Orange background with blue and purple elements. Graphics of computer circuits and confetti]
Image says Contra podcast, institutions and remote disability advocacy, episode 36, with hector ramirez, stories from the remote access archive. the background is orange with computer circuit and confetti graphics.