Key details
Time
- 5pm – 6:30pm
Location
- Online
Price
- Free
Who could attend
- Everyone
Type
- Conference or symposium
This event will touch upon RCA Student, Christopher Laing's experience as a Black, Deaf man in the UK and will be an opportunity to have an open discussion with peers and the wider RCA community about what this means and how our experiences shape who we are.
The Deaf community has historically been discriminated against and this continues to take place both in society as a whole, in the education system and within some family dynamics. There has been a disproportionate focus on oralism and cochlear implants in recent years with less importance or agency given to BSL and those in the BSL community.
The aim of the event is to further awareness amongst peers and to enable people to feel they can become allies.
Christopher Laing will be in conversation with Jephta Asamoah, founder of Black Deaf People UK
Christopher Laing is a MA Architecture Student at RCA. He studied Interior Architecture and Design at the University for the Creative Arts before progressing on to study Part l Architecture at Kingston University. Christopher has a passion for bettering accessibility for Deaf communities within Architecture and a keen interest in the concept of DeafSpace. He is developing tools to enable better participation within the industry for both himself and his Deaf peers.
Jephta Asamoah is a BA Economics and Politics student at University of Leeds. Jephta is also the founder of Black Deaf U.K. Jephta moved to the U.K from Ghana at a young age, for wanting to have a better deaf education in the U.K.
Register via Zoom: https://rca-ac.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_2NEoSIbISo-wwNFYlEZRyQ
This event is part of RCASU's Solidarity Series 2020/21
