Welcomed by Design

On this episode of Welcomed by Design, we sit down with Dr. Jay Dolmage to discuss his book, Academic Ableism, and how he navigates higher education as a disability studies scholar. We touch on various topics such as the deep-rooted history of eugenics in higher education, the mismatched architectural and pedagogical designs present on college campuses, and the importance of building disability culture on these campuses.

Open episode transcript

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Host and producer: Lynn Priestley

Executive producers: Dr. Jessica FitzPatrick, Dr. Sera Mathew, Max Glider

Sound design and producer: Emily Kuntz

Producer and Transcriber: Paige Branagan

Producer: Emily Viaz

Sound editing/design support: Kyle Finch & Max Glider

Our Guests' Links:

• Academic Ableism

• Universal Design mentioned on page 151

• Disabled Upon Arrival

• Disability Rhetoric

Sound credits:

• "Turning to You" from Landmans Duet, by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue)

• "Valantis" from Cauldron, by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue)

• "Algae Trio" from Algae Fields, by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue)

• The rest of the audio comes from Freesound.org.

• Julesv4 - Door Creaking

• Bpayri - Crowd Chattering

• Anthousai - Chalk

• Deleted_user_7020630 - School Bell

• Zrrion-the-Insect - Keyboard Typing Sounds

• 60013_qubodup - Whoosh

If you have questions, guest suggestions, or comments about the accessibility of this podcast, please don't hesitate to email us at [email protected].

Unembedded link to above-mentioned resource library: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1unKUUqD_SH2Qi0C94s2j7WEuXdtP0k0e?usp=sharing

In this mini conversation, we usher in a new era of the show by introducing you to members of our takeover team! You'll get to hear from the new host (Emily Vaiz) and oncoming producer (Paige Branagan) as they tell you a little about themselves, why they decided to join this project, and their future hopes and ideas for the show going forward.

Welcomed by Design's first host, Lynn Priestley, also gives thanks to the people that have made this project possible.

Open conversation transcript

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Host and producer: Lynn Priestley

Executive producer: Dr. Jessica FitzPatrick

Sound designer: Chloe Dahan

Producer (who will be staying on next year!): Emily Kuntz

Transcriber (and one of next year's producers!): Paige Branagan

Next year's host: Emily Vaiz

Check out our graduating team members' portfolio sites/accounts to see what they're up to after this project!

• Access Lynn Priestley's portfolio site

• Check out Ashton's YouTube channel

• Go to Chloe Dahan's portfolio website

• Check out Shivangi Tiwari's LinkedIn

Sound credits:

• Spindash - Butterstone by Blue Dot Sessions

• Champman - Butterstone by Blue Dot Sessions

• Blue Dot Sessions songs above are under an Attribution - NonCommercial 4.0 license (clips from the larger songs were used)

If you have questions, guest suggestions, or comments about the accessibility of this podcast, please don't hesitate to email us at [email protected].

Unembedded link to above-mentioned resource library: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1unKUUqD_SH2Qi0C94s2j7WEuXdtP0k0e?usp=sharing

This is the supplement recording for our seventh episode with Dr. Bess Williamson, Dr. Elizabeth Guffey, and Dr. Meryl Alper. Join us here to debrief on our favorite parts of the conversation, and do a fact and term check of the interview.

It's also the last Lynn and Dr. Fitz supplement, as a new student team will be getting behind the mic in the fall! (Emotions naturally ensue.)

Open supplement transcript

(An unembedded link to the resource library, which includes transcripts, will be at the bottom of this description for anyone needing to copy and paste the link in a web browser.)

Go to our resource library (for terms and recommended readings)

Host and producer: Lynn Priestley

Executive producer: Dr. Jessica FitzPatrick

Sound designer: Chloe Dahan

Producer (and fact/term checker of this supplement): Emily Kuntz

Transcriber: Shivangi "Teddy" Tiwari

Our Guests' Links:

• Our guest's websites:

• Dr. Elizabeth Guffey's website

• Dr. Meryl Alper's website

• Dr. Bess Williamson's website

• Books discussed in our conversation:

• After Universal Design [coming out in June 2023]

• Kids Across the Spectrums [coming out in August 2023]

• Accessible America

• Making Disability Modern

Sound credits:

• Cornicob - Sugartree by Blue Dot Sessions

• Borough - Molerider by Blue Dot Sessions

• Blue Dot Sessions songs above are under an Attribution - NonCommercial 4.0 license (clips from the larger songs were used)

• The remaining sound clips used, outside of spoken audio, were free sound effects from https://www.fesliyanstudios.com

If you have questions, guest suggestions, or comments about the accessibility of this podcast, please don't hesitate to email us at [email protected].

Unembedded link to above-mentioned resource library: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1unKUUqD_SH2Qi0C94s2j7WEuXdtP0k0e?usp=sharing

On this episode of Welcomed by Design, we sit down with Dr. Bess Williamson, Dr. Elizabeth Guffey, and Dr. Meryl Alper to discuss the past, present, and future of disability design. Our talking points include the "wiggly" nature of access, the way mindsets around accessible design (particularly around Universal Design methodology) have differed/evolved across time and place, and the nuances around disability and visibility. (Our guests' guiding advice around responsible speculative design and thoughts on the potentials of crip technoscience/design were particular Welcomed by Design team-favorite moments.)

Open episode transcript

(An unembedded link to the resource library, which includes transcripts, will be at the bottom of this description for anyone needing to copy and paste the link in a web browser.)

Go to our resource library (for terms and recommended readings)

Host and producer: Lynn Priestley

Executive producer: Dr. Jessica FitzPatrick

Sound designer: Ashton McCool

Producer: Emily Kuntz

Transcriber: Shivangi "Teddy" Tiwari

Our Guests' Links:

• Our guest's websites:

• Dr. Elizabeth Guffey's website

• Dr. Meryl Alper's website

• Dr. Bess Williamson's website

• Books discussed in our conversation:

• After Universal Design [coming out in June 2023]

• Kids Across the Spectrums [coming out in August 2023]

• Accessible America

• Making Disability Modern

Sound credits:

• "Turning to You" from Landmans Duet, by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue)

• "Valantis" from Cauldron, by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue)

• "Algae Trio" from Algae Fields, by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue)

• The rest of the audio comes from Freesound.org.

• Julesv4 - Door Creaking

• Rivernile7 - Writing on Paper

• Thatmisfit - Pages Turning

• Piermic - Children Playing

• Simone_DS - Pans Clanking

• TimothyD4Y - Bacon Sizzling

• Zrrion-the-Insect - Keyboard Typing Sounds

• 60013_qubodup - Whoosh

If you have questions, guest suggestions, or comments about the accessibility of this podcast, please don't hesitate to email us at [email protected].

Unembedded link to above-mentioned resource library: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1unKUUqD_SH2Qi0C94s2j7WEuXdtP0k0e?usp=sharing

On this episode of Welcomed by Design, we listen back to Fall 2022's Queer Horror Week, coordinated by Pitt's Horror Studies Working Group. Members of our team got to panel with many cool creatives, including the wonderful, BBC award-winning team of Unwell, to talk about accessibility and identity in the world of audio dramas! With a topic like that, there's obviously going to be far too much good conversation to have a mere hour of footage. So we're releasing a two-part special (which, given its patchwork of event audio clips, a lá Frankenstein's monster, is thematically spooky in structure).

In this part 2, we discuss inclusive world-building, from challenging what gets capital-O Othered and what is normalized, to some of the team's favorite aspects of the world they've created.

Be sure to check out part 1 for even more conversation, which focuses on real-life accessibility and inclusion in their production.

Open episode transcript (which we've annotated this episode, in honor of Unwell!)

(An unembedded link to the resource library, which includes transcripts, will be at the bottom of this description for anyone needing to copy and paste the link in a web browser.)

Go to our resource library (for terms and recommended readings)

Check out Unwell, a fictional Midwestern Gothic Mystery podcast, about conspiracies, ghosts, and unusual families of blood and choice…

Host and producer: Lynn Priestley

Executive producer: Dr. Jessica FitzPatrick

Sound designer: Chloe Dahan

Producer: Emily Kuntz

Transcriber: Shivangi "Teddy" Tiwari

Sound credits:

• Turning to You" from Landmans Duet, by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue)

• "Valantis" from Cauldron, by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue)

• Some sound effects were sourced from Freesound.org.

• Julesv4 - Door Creaking

• Nettimato - Chain

• Keweldog - Crunching Scraping

• Mincedbeats - Gel Squelches

• TRP - Foot Squish Wet Mud Puddle Stratford

• Garzul - Analog Lazer fx

• Florianreichelt - Soft Wind

• The remaining sound clips used (except for the door opening sound clip), outside of spoken audio, were free sound effects from https://www.fesliyanstudios.com

If you have questions, guest suggestions, or comments about the accessibility of this podcast, please don't hesitate to email us at [email protected].

Unembedded link to above-mentioned resource library: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1unKUUqD_SH2Qi0C94s2j7WEuXdtP0k0e?usp=sharing

On this episode of Welcomed by Design, we listen back to Fall 2022's Queer Horror Week, coordinated by Pitt's Horror Studies Working Group. Members of our team got to panel with many cool creatives, including the wonderful, BBC award-winning team of Unwell, to talk about accessibility and identity in the world of audio dramas! With a topic like that, there's obviously going to be far too much good conversation to have a mere hour of footage. So we're releasing a two-part special (which, given its patchwork of event audio clips, a lá Frankenstein's monster, is also thematically spooky in structure).

In this part 1, we discuss accessible and inclusive production practices, on the "real life" side of things. We talked about everything from fun/snarky transcript comments to balancing the nature of scaring in horror with care in content warnings.

Be sure to check out part 2 for even more conversation, this time on inclusive fictional practices.

Open episode transcript (which we've annotated this episode, in honor of Unwell!)

(An unembedded link to the resource library, which includes transcripts, will be at the bottom of this description for anyone needing to copy and paste the link in a web browser.)

Go to our resource library (for terms and recommended readings)

Check out Unwell, a fictional Midwestern Gothic Mystery podcast, about conspiracies, ghosts, and unusual families of blood and choice…

Host and producer: Lynn Priestley

Executive producer: Dr. Jessica FitzPatrick

Sound designer: Ashton McCool

Producer: Emily Kuntz

Transcriber: Shivangi "Teddy" Tiwari

Sound credits:

• "Turning to You" from Landmans Duet, by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue)

• "Valantis" from Cauldron, by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue)

• Some sound effects were sourced from Freesound.org.

• Julesv4 - Door Creaking

• Nettimato - Chain

• Keweldog - Crunching Scraping

• Mincedbeats - Gel Squelches

• TRP - Foot Squish Wet Mud Puddle Stratford

• Garzul - Analog Lazer fx

• Florianreichelt - Soft Wind

• Sound effects not listed above were sourced from https://www.fesliyanstudios.com

If you have questions, guest suggestions, or comments about the accessibility of this podcast, please don't hesitate to email us at [email protected].

Unembedded link to above-mentioned resource library: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1unKUUqD_SH2Qi0C94s2j7WEuXdtP0k0e?usp=sharing

This is the supplement recording for our fifth episode with Dr. Kelsey Cameron. Join us here to debrief on our favorite parts of the conversation, do a fact check of the interview, and define some terms that got dropped in the episode. (This supplement is particularly packed with resources and recommendations for learning more about the sci-fi world we find ourselves in.)

Listen until the end, and you may even unlock some secret information…

Content warning: In this supplement, we are discussing our interview with Kelsey, about police body cams and their impact on policing and the criminal justice system. Given the nature of this topic, our debrief and fact/term checks contain conversation around systemic racism, police violence, body cams, and their footage. For an extended content warning, including a temporal locator of this recording, please refer to 0:00:00 - 0:01:43 of both the supplement and supplement transcript.

Open supplement transcript

(An unembedded link to the resource library, which includes transcripts, will be at the bottom of this description for anyone needing to copy and paste the link in a web browser.)

Go to our resource library (for terms and recommended readings)

Host and producer: Lynn Priestley

Executive producer: Dr. Jessica FitzPatrick

Sound design: Chloe Dahan

Producer (and fact/term checker of this supplement): Emily Kuntz

Transcriber: Shivangi "Teddy" Tiwari

Sound credits:

• Cornicob - Sugartree by Blue Dot Sessions

• Borough - Molerider by Blue Dot Sessions

• Blue Dot Sessions songs above are under an Attribution - NonCommercial 4.0 license (clips from the larger songs were used)

• The remaining sound clips used, outside of spoken audio, were free sound effects from https://www.fesliyanstudios.com

If you have questions, guest suggestions, or comments about the accessibility of this podcast, please don't hesitate to email us at [email protected].

Unembedded link to above-mentioned resource library: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1unKUUqD_SH2Qi0C94s2j7WEuXdtP0k0e?usp=sharing

On this episode of Welcomed by Design, we sit down with Dr. Kelsey Cameron to discuss police body cams, the subjective nature of interpreting body cam footage, and why body cams fail as "perfect witnesses." And we also talk about the design that goes into body cam operation: policy design affecting their use, how the footage gets handled once recorded, and the physical design of the cameras. This is a conversation that highlights critical nuances often left out of mainstream conversations around body cams, as well as why empathy might not always be what designers need to be seeking to design better.

Content warning: In this interview, we discuss police body cams and their impact on policing and the criminal justice system. Given the nature of this topic we discuss systemic racism, police violence, body cams, and their footage. For an extended content warning, including a temporal locator of this interview, please refer to 0:00:00 - 0:01:21 of both the episode and episode transcript.

Open episode transcript

(An unembedded link to the resource library, which includes transcripts, will be at the bottom of this description for anyone needing to copy and paste the link in a web browser.)

Go to our resource library (for terms and recommended readings)

Host and producer: Lynn Priestley

Executive producer: Dr. Jessica FitzPatrick

Sound design: Ashton McCool

Producer: Emily Kuntz

Transcriber: Shivangi "Teddy" Tiwari

Sound credits:

• "Turning to You" from Landmans Duet, by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue)

• "Valantis" from Cauldron, by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue)

• "Algae Trio" from Algae Fields, by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue)

• The rest of the audio comes from Freesound.org.

• Julesv4 - Door Creaking

• DCPoke - Birds Singing 03

• Jazbavac - Vibration

• Patchytherat - Whiney Meow 2

• Sonically_Sound - Crowd at Cafeteria

• Zrrion-the-Insect - Keyboard Typing Sounds

• 60013_qubodup - Whoosh

If you have questions, guest suggestions, or comments about the accessibility of this podcast, please don't hesitate to email us at [email protected].

Unembedded link to above-mentioned resource library: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1unKUUqD_SH2Qi0C94s2j7WEuXdtP0k0e?usp=sharing

This is the supplement recording for our fourth episode with Dr. Bridget Keown and Dr. Victoria Grieve. Consider this a bonus level of content, where members of the podcast team debrief on our favorite parts, do a fact check of the episode's conversation, and define some terms that got dropped in the episode. We also take a moment to provide some more fun and less binary-based alternatives to "ladies and gentlemen." Listen until the end, and you may even unlock some secret information…

Open supplement transcript

(An unembedded link to the resource library, which includes transcripts, will be at the bottom of this description for anyone needing to copy and paste the link in a web browser.)

Go to our resource library (for terms and recommended readings)

Links from Bridget and Victoria:

• Gender and Science Reading Group, organized by Bridget and open to the Pitt community!

• Research, Ethics and Society Initiative (RESI) events coming soon

• It Could Happen Here podcast: Hormone Replacement Therapy Part 1 and Part 2 (featuring Victoria!)

Host and producer: Lynn Priestley

Executive producer: Dr. Jessica FitzPatrick

Sound design: Chloe Dahan

Producer: Emily Kuntz

Transcriber: Shivangi "Teddy" Tiwari

Sound credits:

• Cornicob - Sugartree by Blue Dot Sessions

• Borough - Molerider by Blue Dot Sessions

• Blue Dot Sessions songs above are under an Attribution - NonCommercial 4.0 license (clips from the larger songs were used)

• The remaining sound clips used, outside of spoken audio, were free sound effects from https://www.fesliyanstudios.com

If you have questions, guest suggestions, or comments about the accessibility of this podcast, please don't hesitate to email us at [email protected].

Unembedded link to above-mentioned resource library: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1unKUUqD_SH2Qi0C94s2j7WEuXdtP0k0e?usp=sharing

On this episode of Welcomed by Design, we sit down with two Pitt professors, Dr. Victoria Grieve and Dr. Bridget Keown, to talk about gender inclusion. We discuss some gender-based "pain points" for designers to consider, how we live in the internet, and why diversity in the workplace can't just end with hiring practices. This conversation spans everything from Starship robot families to statistics gone bad. (Seriously, the initial recording went for over an hour and a half. It was so much fun. Having to edit it down to under an hour and a half was less fun.)

Open episode transcript

(An unembedded link to the resource library, which includes transcripts, will be at the bottom of this description for anyone needing to copy and paste the link in a web browser.)

Go to our resource library (for terms and recommended readings)

Links from Bridget and Victoria:

• Gender and Science Reading Group, organized by Bridget and open to the Pitt community!

• Research, Ethics and Society Initiative (RESI) events coming soon

• It Could Happen Here podcast: Hormone Replacement Therapy Part 1 and Part 2 (featuring Victoria!)

Host and producer: Lynn Priestley

Executive producer: Dr. Jessica FitzPatrick

Sound design: Ashton McCool

Producer: Emily Kuntz

Transcriber: Shivangi "Teddy" Tiwari

Sound credits:

• "Turning to You" from Landmans Duet, by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue)

• "Valantis" from Cauldron, by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue)

• "Algae Trio" from Algae Fields, by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue)

• Vivaldi - Symphony in G Major

• The rest of the audio comes from Freesound.org.

• Rivernile7 - Writing on Paper

• JulesV4 - Door Creaking

• Soundsforhim - Close Book

• Thatmisfit - Pages Turning

If you have questions, guest suggestions, or comments about the accessibility of this podcast, please don't hesitate to email us at [email protected].

Unembedded link to above-mentioned resource library: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1unKUUqD_SH2Qi0C94s2j7WEuXdtP0k0e?usp=sharing