Making Disability Modern: Design Histories

By: Elizabeth Guffeyand Bess Williamson

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Synopsis: 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.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9781350070448
Related ISBNs:: 9781350070424
Publisher:: Bloomsbury Publishing
Date of Addition:: 08/04/20
Copyrighted By:: Editorial content and introductions, Elizabeth Guffey and Bess Williamson, 2
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: History, Nonfiction, Disability-Related, Art and Architecture, Social Studies
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Bess Williamson
Edited by:: Elizabeth Guffey