09. SHAINA YANG
Harvard, Cambridge, US
Yang’s thesis ‘Cripping Architecture’ was jointly awarded the James Templeton Kelley Prize for best final design project and the Clifford Wong Prize for best housing design project. Reclaiming the word ‘crip’, in use by the disabled community since the 1960s to describe the act of applying a disability lens to able-privileged spaces and practices, she says, ‘I dreamed of what the world might look like if it was designed to different assumptions.’ Yang is co-founder of research collective Yangboydvu and now works at Adam Sokol Architecture Practice. Dream collaborator: Nasa. @shaina_yang