MIT MAD Fellow Improves Accessibility of Online Graphics for Blind Users

Jul 18, 2023
This event presented innovative areas of design action, showcasing some of the key topics explored by MAD fellows in 2022-23. A celebration of design's capacity to deeply transform our relation to the world, fellows and their advisors discussed works that create better, more sustainable, and more inclusive buildings, public spaces, communities, and digital systems.
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MIT MAD Tomorrow's Designers, Designing Today event, moderated by Svafa Grönfeldt / May 3, 2023, The MIT Museum
MIT MAD Tomorrow's Designers, Designing Today event, moderated by Svafa Grönfeldt / May 3, 2023, The MIT Museum
2/5 — Justin Brazier and Sheila Kennedy
Justin is an architect who studies how design enhances cultural identity, agriculture, environmental education, and economic sovereignty through the development of the Green Innovation Corridor that will run through Boston’s Mattapan and Dorchester neighborhoods.
Sheila Kennedy is a professor of Architecture at MIT, founding principal in Kennedy & Violich Architecture Ltd., and Justin's advisor.
MIT MAD Tomorrow's Designers, Designing Today event, moderated by Svafa Grönfeldt / May 3, 2023, The MIT Museum
3/5 — Jana Saadi and Maria Yang
Jana is an engineer and designer who investigates the interaction between designers and computational design tools throughout the design process.
Maria, Gail E. Kendall (1978) Professor of Mechanical Engineering, founder and director of MIT’s Ideation Lab, is Jana's advisor. She is also MAD's associate director.
MIT MAD Tomorrow's Designers, Designing Today event, moderated by Svafa Grönfeldt / May 3, 2023, The MIT Museum
4/5 — Jonathan Zong and Arvind Satyanarayan
Jonathan is a designer, computer scientist, and artist using design to empower marginalized individuals and communities, primarily blind and low-vision people. He creates tools for multi-sensory data analysis, making complementary use of graphics, description, and sound, thus allowing data to be more accessible to all.
Arvind is Associate Professor of Computer Science and director of the MIT CSAIL Visualization Group, as well as Jonathan's advisor.
MIT MAD Tomorrow's Designers, Designing Today event, moderated by Svafa Grönfeldt / May 3, 2023, The MIT Museum
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