Author: FDR Memorial Legacy Committee (i): Contact: fdrmemoriallegacy.com
Published: 10/29/2020
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The mission of the FDR Memorial Legacy Committee to ensure the efforts of the disabled community at the FDR Memorial in Washington DC will become part of the educational materials, visitor information, and collective memory of the Memorial.
Every year nearly 2.5 million people visit the FDR Memorial in Washington, DC, which was dedicated in 1997 to pay tribute to Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
The FDR Committee brings together historians, disability and civil rights attorneys, artists, academics, government, business, and nonprofit leaders, and interested people from across the country.
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The FDR Memorial Legacy Committee (FDR Committee) proactively tasked the National Trust for Historic Preservation (NTHP) with insisting that the Tidal Basin Ideas Lab and any future plans related to the Tidal Basin, FDR Memorial, and the National Mall be closed Apply universal design best practices, maximize inclusion and access, and consult well-known experts in the field at all stages of planning.
Several members of the Advisory Board of the FDR Committee, Jane Deland, Steven Graham, Arlene King-Berry, John Kemp, Meg O’Connell, and Executive Director Mary Dolan urged the NTHP to call for their current and limited approach to direct stakeholder engagement to expand .
“Disability Community Leadership and Educators, both local and national, are two of the key groups we believe are missing from this critical conversation,” said Meg O’Connell, Founder and CEO of Global Disability Inclusion.
Mission of the FDR Committee
The role of the FDR Committee is to ensure that the disabled community’s efforts to secure representation at the FDR Memorial in Washington DC are not forgotten and become part of the educational material, visitor information, and collective memory of the monument as originally intended.
Every year nearly 2.5 million people visit the FDR Memorial in Washington, DC, which was dedicated in 1997 to pay tribute to Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Visitors now experience a seamlessly constructed monument; However, the representation of the disability of the FDR was not included in the original draft. After a highly competitive campaign led by people with disabilities, the first room – the prologue – was added four years after the monument was first opened. The priority of the FDR committee is to ensure that this story is accurately told and saved for history.
Inclusivity and representation
The FDR committee set the following points to further encourage the NTHP to broaden their approach to inclusivity and representation.
1. Extension of the stakeholders to the Ideas Lab by:
- one. Leading the disabled community – both locally and nationally.
- b. DC residents in all counties with the intent to improve the use and accessibility of the National Mall and its assets.
- c. Educators from the DC area and beyond as key individuals who will use the Tidal Basin area for educational purposes.
2. NTHP to highlight the National Park Service (NPS) and other cooperating agencies and institutions:
- one. The importance of funding educational programs at the FDR memorial to tell the under-represented stories related to the memorial and the Roosevelt era.
- b. Concern that repairs to the FDR Memorial, including the wells, are carried out in a comprehensive and integrated manner that takes into account the original intent of the FDR Memorial’s design and future plans for the tidal pool. NTHP was intended to remind NPS and others of Steven Graham’s interest and expertise as the original artist of the FDR Memorial.
- c. It is important to quickly follow a review of accessibility and inclusion proposed by the FDR Committee at the FDR Memorial and in the surrounding areas and to make the necessary improvements in consultation with the disabled community and recognized experts in universal design.
3. The Ideas Lab and any future plans related to the Tidal Basin, FDR Memorial, and National Mall use Universal Design’s best practices to maximize inclusion, access, and consult well-known experts in the field at all stages of planning .
4th Allowing the FDR Memorial and nearby areas to become inaccessible and into serious deterioration sends a message of disrespect and lack of value for the disabled community and the FDR Memorial as a whole.
5. Use of the land in and around the FDR monument should be considered for educational purposes, e.g. B. for an expanded visitor center. and flexible use of the land to encourage interpretation of the legacy of FDR, Eleanor, their era and current uses.
6th Engaging DC’s “native talent” by engaging DC’s public university – the University of the District of Columbia – in opportunities such as internships, apprenticeships, training and educational partnerships throughout the life of the Tidal Basin Project.
The Tidal Basin Ideas Lab has published the proposals for the public exhibition (https://www.tidalbasinideaslab.org/proposals) to meet the urgent need for repairs and improvements from five leading landscape architecture firms:
- DLANDstudio; GGN
- Hood Design Studio
- James Corner Field Operations
- Reed Hilderbrand
The FDR Committee urges the disabled community and other target groups who may have been excluded from the initial stakeholder discussions to review these suggestions and provide feedback in order to make our voice heard.
FDR Memorial Legacy Committee
The FDR Committee brings together historians, disability and civil rights attorneys, artists, academics, government, business, and nonprofit leaders, and interested people from across the country.
The FDR committee operates independently under the nonprofit status of the National Council on Independent Living (NCIL), which acts as a financial sponsor – www.fdrmemoriallegacy.com
The FDR’s Memorial to the Disability will feature personal tributes to people with disabilities: President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s sculpture greeting a young girl who is also disabled will be the first monument dedicated to the FDR’s disability.
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