Thursday, January 30, 2025
12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Via Zoom
AIA Credits Available
Please join HDC for a lunch-and-learn panel discussion on accessible design in the built environment, with a special focus on historic structures and scenic landmarks. With co-sponsorship from AIA Brooklyn, which is offering AIA Credits for this event, HDC is convening this panel as an extension of our work reviewing proposals at the LPC, which includes numerous proposals each year seeking to make buildings, sites, and parks accessible.
Bringing together panelists who steward historic structures, as well as panelists who work at the forefront of inclusive design, we hope this panel will help promote accessibility solutions for designated places. Panelists will discuss their work making New York’s historic structures and landscapes accessible, and their efforts to bring new forms of accessibility (such as neuro-inclusive design) to adaptive reuse projects and new construction both within and outside of historic districts.
The panel will include Giulietta Fiore, Deputy Director of the Historic House Trust; Danise Levine, creator of Universal Design New York 2 for the NYC Department of Design and Construction; Irina Verona, of Verona Carpenter Architects, a firm that focuses on neuro-inclusive design and will be moderated by HDC Adviser Corey Spitzer, Project Manager of Facilities and Construction at the Bronx Zoo, and President of the Association for Preservation Technology Northeast Chapter.
General Admission $10 / AIA Credit $25
image courtesy of the Historic House Trust