Inviting Death: The life and death consequences of access to housing

Office of Social Innovation at TMU

The Office of Social Innovation will present a Transformation Cafe exploring the intersection of disability, death, and access to housing.

Daphne Cockwell Complex (DCC)

<a href="https://www.torontomu.ca/sid/research-creative/" title="https://www.torontomu.ca/sid/research-creative/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">housed… [un]housed…. [re]housed symposium</a>, School of Interior Design, Toronto Metropolitan University Inviting Death: The life and death consequences of access to housingMay 9th, 12-2pm288 Church Street, room 707/709 The Office of Social Innovation will present a Transformation Cafe exploring the intersection of disability, death, and access to housing on May 9th, as part of TMU’s School of Interior Design’s housed…unhoused…rehoused symposium. Transformation cafes are discussions that are open to the TMU community and the public that invite people from different disciplines and communities to engage in dialogue around a common issue. We will begin with a screening of Liz Carr’s documentary, Better off Dead?, which takes a disability activist analysis to explore different perspectives of medical assistance in dying. The screening will be followed by a Death cafe. Death Cafes are salon-style conversations about death, conversations often quieted in secular, western/ized cultures. These loosely structured conversations are typically guided by questions aimed to animate personal, collective, cultural, political, and/or spiritual exchanges discussions about death. In this death cafe, we will discuss disabled people’s life and death chances within a culture in which medical assistance in dying coupled with a lack of adequate social services and supports may make it easier to access death than to access life. Hosted by Carmen Galvan, Esther Ignagni, Flavia Novais, Max Ferguson, and Eliza Chandler Access information: This event will take place in a barrier-free room and will be free and open to the public. We will have ASL interpreters. This will be a relaxed space. As a content note, we will take up discussions of death and precarity related to disabled and other marginalized communities. We will have an active listener on site. This event is supported in part by funding the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and The Office of the President, Toronto Metropolitan University, The Creative School: New Collaborations Grant, Interior Design at The Creative School, TMU Libraries, Lincoln Alexander School of Law, The Office of Social Innovation, Department of Architecture, and The Office of the Provost and Vice-President, Academic.

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