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017: Tigress Osborn: National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance (NAAFA) and the Built Environment

Architectette
Architectette
Episode • Sep 4, 2023 • 47m

On today’s episode of Architectette we are branching out from the AEC industry to welcome our friend Tigress Osborn!

Tigress is the Board Chair of the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance. NAAFA is a non-profit, volunteer, fat rights organization dedicated to protecting the rights and improving the quality of life for fat people. 


We talk about:

- Tigress’ leadership at NAAFA and the goals of the organization

- The challenges people of larger body sizes face in the built environment

- The language to use during these conversations, accessibility laws, and the burden of literally not being able to fit in some public spaces

- We also talk about the specifics of furniture, layouts, restaurants, bathrooms, and even parking spaces!

- I hope designers will leave this conversation being a bit more mindful about ways that they can design spaces to be more inclusive


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Links:

NAAFA: https://naafa.org/

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