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Hendren, Sara, 1973-
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Design -- Human factors.
Barrier-free design.
Design -- Social aspects.
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Hendren, Sara, 1973-
Design -- Human factors.
Barrier-free design.
Design -- Social aspects.
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What
can
a
body
do
? :
how
we
meet
the
built
world
/ Sara Hendren.
by
Hendren, Sara, 1973-
Riverhead Books, 2020.
Call #:
745.4 H498w
Subjects
Design -- Human factors.
Barrier-free design.
Design -- Social aspects.
ISBN:
9780735220003 (hc)
Edition:
1st hardcover.
Description:
228 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-228).
Summary:
"A fascinating and provocative new way of looking at the things
we
use and the spaces
we
inhabit, and a call to imagine a better-designed
world
for us all. 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 understood as 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."--Publisher.
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