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Furniture and tools, kitchens and campuses and city streets-nearly everything human beings make and use is assistive technology, meant to bridge the gap between body and world. Yet unless, or until, a misfit between our own body and the world is acute enough to be considered disability, we may never stop to consider-or reconsider-the hidden assumptions on which our everyday environment is built.
In a series of vivid stories drawn from the lived experience of disability and the ideas and innovations that have emerged from it-from cyborg arms to customizable cardboard chairs to deaf architecture -Sara Hendren invites us to rethink the things and settings we live with. What might assistance based on the body's stunning capacity for adaptation-rather than a rigid insistence on "normalcy"-look like? Can we foster interdependent, not just independent, living? How do we creatively engineer public spaces that allow us all to navigate our common terrain? By rendering familiar objects and environments newly strange and wondrous, What Can a Body Do? helps us imagine a future that will better meet the extraordinary range of our collective needs and desires.
Furniture and tools, kitchens and campuses and city streets-nearly everything human beings make and use is assistive technology, meant to bridge the gap between body and world. Yet unless, or until, a misfit between our own body and the world is acute enough to be considered disability, we may never stop to consider-or reconsider-the hidden assumptions on which our everyday environment is built.
In a series of vivid stories drawn from the lived experience of disability and the ideas and innovations that have emerged from it-from cyborg arms to customizable cardboard chairs to deaf architecture -Sara Hendren invites us to rethink the things and settings we live with. What might assistance based on the body's stunning capacity for adaptation-rather than a rigid insistence on "normalcy"-look like? Can we foster interdependent, not just independent, living? How do we creatively engineer public spaces that allow us all to navigate our common terrain? By rendering familiar objects and environments newly strange and wondrous, What Can a Body Do? helps us imagine a future that will better meet the extraordinary range of our collective needs and desires.
BIG IDEAS, EASY ACCESS: Hendren has that rare ability to bring earth-shaking theory down to earth-and to life, with riveting stories. Her writing is smart, playful, accessible, and fascinating.
PERFECT AUTHOR - SUBJECT MATCH: Hendren is an artist and researcher who teaches disability design to engineers in training. She is also the mother of a child with Down's Syndrome. From multiple perspectives, she is uniquely qualified to write this book.
UNIVERSAL RELEVANCE: One in eight people are considered to live with some form of disability, and all of us are "disabled" at some point-by a broken ankle, an autism diagnosis, hearing loss, pregnancy. This is a book with implications for all of us.
ROBUST PLATFORM: Hendren's work has been featured on NPR, Amy Poehler's Smart Girls, and in the Atlantic and Washington Post, and she's a frequent presence on the lecture circuit.
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2020 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Kunst |
| Rubrik: | Kunst & Musik |
| Thema: | Innenarchitektur & Design |
| Medium: | Buch |
| Seiten: | 240 |
| Inhalt: | Einband - fest (Hardcover) |
| ISBN-13: | 9780735220003 |
| ISBN-10: | 073522000X |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Gebunden |
| Autor: | Hendren, Sara |
| Hersteller: | Penguin Publishing Group |
| Maße: | 232 x 157 x 24 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Sara Hendren |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 18.08.2020 |
| Gewicht: | 0,426 kg |
BIG IDEAS, EASY ACCESS: Hendren has that rare ability to bring earth-shaking theory down to earth-and to life, with riveting stories. Her writing is smart, playful, accessible, and fascinating.
PERFECT AUTHOR - SUBJECT MATCH: Hendren is an artist and researcher who teaches disability design to engineers in training. She is also the mother of a child with Down's Syndrome. From multiple perspectives, she is uniquely qualified to write this book.
UNIVERSAL RELEVANCE: One in eight people are considered to live with some form of disability, and all of us are "disabled" at some point-by a broken ankle, an autism diagnosis, hearing loss, pregnancy. This is a book with implications for all of us.
ROBUST PLATFORM: Hendren's work has been featured on NPR, Amy Poehler's Smart Girls, and in the Atlantic and Washington Post, and she's a frequent presence on the lecture circuit.
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2020 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Kunst |
| Rubrik: | Kunst & Musik |
| Thema: | Innenarchitektur & Design |
| Medium: | Buch |
| Seiten: | 240 |
| Inhalt: | Einband - fest (Hardcover) |
| ISBN-13: | 9780735220003 |
| ISBN-10: | 073522000X |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Gebunden |
| Autor: | Hendren, Sara |
| Hersteller: | Penguin Publishing Group |
| Maße: | 232 x 157 x 24 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Sara Hendren |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 18.08.2020 |
| Gewicht: | 0,426 kg |
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