Making disability modern : design histories

Format:

Book

Language:

English

Imprint:

London ; New York : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2020

Subject:

Self-help devices for people with disabilities - Design and construction - History
Design - Human factors
Barrier-free design - History

Contributor:

Williamson, Bess, editor
Guffey, Elizabeth E., editor
Nair, Aparna, writer of supplementary textual content
Whitney, Kristoffer, writer of supplementary textual content
Kaufmann-Buhler, Jennifer, writer of supplementary textual content
Ellcessor, Elizabeth, writer of supplementary textual content
Virdi, Jaipreet, writer of supplementary textual content
Nicole Belolan, writer of supplementary textual content
Cara Kiernan Fallon, writer of supplementary textual content
Caroline Lieffers, writer of supplementary textual content
Wanda Katja Liebermann, writer of supplementary textual content
Debra Riley Parr, writer of supplementary textual content

ISBN:

9781350070431, 1350070432, 9781350070424, and 1350070424

Description:

viii, 250 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm

Bibliographic Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

Rethinking design history through disability, rethinking disability through design -- Elizabeth Guffey and Bess Williamson -- Designers and users from craft to industry -- The material culture of gout in early America / Nicole Belolan -- Walking cane style and medicalized mobility / Cara Kiernan Fallon -- Artificial limbs on the Panama Canal / Caroline Lieffers -- Technologies for the deaf in British India, 1850-1950 / Aparna Nair -- Disability and world-making in the twentieth century -- The ideologies of designing for disability / Elizabeth Guffey -- Architecture, science, and disabled citizenship / Wanda Katja Liebermann -- Disability and modern chemical sensitivities / Debra Riley Parr -- Design for deaf education : early history of the NTID / Kristoffer Whitney -- Designing the Japanese walking bag / Elizabeth Guffey -- Making disability digital -- The politics and logistics of ergonomic design / Jennifer Kaufmann-Buhler -- Designing emergency access : Lifeline & LifeCall / Elizabeth Ellcessor -- 3D-printed prosthetics and the uses of design / Bess Williamson -- Materializing user identities & digital humanities / Jaipreet Virdi

Summary:

"Making Disability Modern: Design Histories brings together leading scholars from a range of disciplinary and national perspectives to examine how designed objects and spaces contributes to the meanings of ability and disability from the late 18th century to the present day, and in homes, offices, and schools to realms of national and international politics. The contributors reveal the social role of objects - particularly those designed for use by people with disabilities, such as walking sticks, wheelchairs, and prosthetic limbs - and consider the active role that makers, users and designers take to reshape the material environment into a usable world. But it also aims to make clear that definitions of disability-and ability-are often shaped by design" Back cover

Collection:

BGC Course Reserves

Call Number:

NK1110 .M35 2020

Available

c.1

Course Name:

452. In Focus: (Re)Dressing the American Body I. BGC Spring 2023

Instructor:

McClendon, E.
Peters, L.