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Magda Mostafa, Principal of StudioTM & Associate Chair and Professor of Design, Department of Architecture at the American University in Cairo

Tuesday, May 14, 1 PM ET

What Can Designers Learn from Autism? 

Architecture professor Magda Mostafa believes that when we design for autism, we design for everyone. Instead of thinking about autistic people as a group with special preferences that need to be catered to, designers could learn from how autism influences the ways people perceive, experience, and interact with space.

Join Mostafa to learn about how she distilled those experiences into 18 specific design criteria, and how that could unlock a new way of designing buildings and spaces.


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