Jeffrey Yasuo Mansfield
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Jeffrey Yasuo Mansfield is a design director at MASS Design Group (MASS). His work explores the relationships between architecture, landscape, and power. Deaf since birth, Jeffrey attended a deaf school in Massachusetts, where his earliest intuitions about the relationship between architecture, society, and power emerged. With the support of a Graham Foundation grant and the John W. Kluge Fellowship from the Library of Congress, he is currently researching how Deaf schools and other Deaf Spaces emerged as sites of cultural resistance in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. At MASS, Mansfield leads the Restorative Justice Design Lab, leveraging the design process to advocate for mass decarceration and works on a number of design projects, exhibitions, and publications, including MASS Design Group’s first monograph, Justice is Beauty (The Monacelli Press). His work has been published in the Cooper Hewitt Design Journal, Architectural Design (AD), Tacet and exhibited at MoMA PS1, Bergen Assembly, Sao Paulo Biennale, the Sharjah Biennial, and Tallinn Art Hall. Mansfield holds a Master of Architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design and an AB in Architecture from Princeton University.