Join architects Joel Sanders, Sami Meylnas Sikanas, and activist Kimm Topping at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum on March 28 at 7 pm as they discuss how inclusive design and the crafting of accessible public spaces embrace diverse gender and sexual identities in a conversation that redefines urban design beyond heteronormative boundaries.
The public realm has been historically conceived, constructed, and construed as heteronormative. The architectural and urban typologies of bathrooms, sports fields, and campuses have spatially reinforced strict gender binaries and prohibitions of various sexualities. More recently, the contemporary city has seen a growing discourse on design beyond its heteronormative origins. Queering Public Spaces convenes conversation on the role of design and planning in the curation of public spaces and landscapes that are accessible and welcoming to all, across the dynamic and vast spectrum of sexual and gender identities and lived experiences. The Larger Landscape Conversation is hosted by Gardner Museum Ruettgers Curator of Landscape and Harvard GSD Professor of Landscape Architecture Charles Waldheim.
Advanced tickets are required and include Museum admission. Adults $20, seniors $18, students $13, free for members and children 17 and under. Seating in Calderwood Hall is first come, first served. Seating begins 45 minutes before the event. Late seating is not guaranteed. To request accessible or wheelchair seating please call the box office at 617 278 5156. Register at https://www.gardnermuseum.org/calendar/larger-landscape-conversation-queering-public-spaces
