MIXdesign
MIXdesign
MIXdesign is an inclusive design studio dedicated to considering the needs of a broad segment of the population that the discipline of architecture has traditionally overlooked: people of different ages, genders, races and abilities that fall out of the cultural mainstream. They collaborate with institutional clients to develop design recommendations, prototypes and guidelines geared to making public spaces and everyday building types including restrooms, university campuses, and art museums foster a sense of safety, accessibility and belonging for all. MIXdesign offers an alternative to the “separate but equal” approach characteristic of most accessibility standards which tend to provide separate accommodations, like accessible entrances and ramps, that isolate and as a consequence stigmatize people who are different from the norm. Instead, their objective is to create spaces that allow the maximum number of people—individuals, friends, families, and caregivers—to share the public spaces that shape our daily lives while also providing options for people who have unique functional, religious, or privacy needs. Hence the name MIXdesign.