What Can a Body Do?
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What Can a Body Do? by Sara Hendren
The built world is constructed on a set of hidden assumptions. The design of a chair, the shape of a doorknob, the steps to a house: nearly everything human beings make is assistive technology, meant to bridge the gap between body and world. Yet unless the misfit between our body and the world is acute enough to be considered 'disability,' we may never consider the ideas on which the everyday world is based. In a series of fascinating, provocative explorations that draw on cutting-edge disability theory, Sara Hendren translates this secret language of design and invites us to reboot it.
Sara Hendren is an artist, design researcher, and writer who teaches design for disability at Olin College of Engineering. Her work has been exhibited widely and is held in the permanent collections of MoMA and the Cooper Hewitt design museum; her writing and design work have been featured in The New York Times and Fast Company and on NPR. Hendren has been a fellow at New America and the Carey Institute for Global Good. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with her husband and children.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780735220003 |
| ISBN 10 | 073522000X |
| Title | What Can a Body Do? |
| Author | Sara Hendren |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Prentice Hall Press |
| Year published | 2020-08-18 |
| Number of pages | 240 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for Massachusetts Book Award 2020 |
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