What Can a Body Do?
How we Meet the Built World
by Sara Hendren

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Auteur(s)

Sara Hendren

Uitgever, jaar

New York : Riverhead Books, 2020

Omvang

240 p., 23.5 cm.

ISBN

9780735220003

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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 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 her readers to rethink the things and settings we live with. What might assistance based on the body’s capacity for adaptation - rather than an insistence on “normalcy”- look like? Can we foster interdependent, not just independent, living? How do we creatively engineer public spaces that allow all humans to navigate our common terrain? What Can a Body Do? helps imagine a future that will better meet the range of our collective needs and desires

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Locatie in de bibliotheek

Kast 31 - 2: Lichaam en omgeving

Extra thema's

Body and Architecture, Body and Space, Residents and the built environment ;

Opmerkingen

Incl. notes, Bibliography