Graduate Research Studio in Inclusive Design, focused on the reclaiming and reappropriating of post-gay spaces. Focus of study was a collection of buildings in Buffalo that, at one point in their histories, served as a queer gathering space, but have since been abandoned or have assumed other functions. Together, the studio engaged a two-phase methodology to imagine a future for these buildings as sites of exhibition for the Madeline Davis GLBT Archive of Western New York, memorializing their past and challenging existing limits in the scope of “inclusive design,” through archive and exhibition.
Students began by identifying an artifact in the Madeline Davis Archive that evidenced their building’s history of queer occupation, before queering both the building’s exterior (through passing and flagging), and interior (through queer deconstruction and reassembly).
