Making disability modern : design histories / edited by Bess Williamson and Elizabeth Guffey.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Williamson, Bess, editor.

Guffey, Elizabeth, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Orthopedic apparatus--History.

Orthopedic apparatus.

Barrier-free design--History.

Barrier-free design.

People with disabilities--History.

People with disabilities.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (264 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020

Place of Publication:

London [England] : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2020.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Rethinking Design History through Disability, Rethinking Disability through Design Elizabeth Guffey and Bess Williamson, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA

Section I: Designers and Users From Craft to Industry Section Introduction

Chapter 1: Everyday Design in Early America: The Case for Gout Nicole Belolan, Rutgers University, USA

Chapter 2: From Bespoke to Mass Market: The Medicalization of the Cane in the Twentieth-Century United States Cara Kiernan Fallon, University of Pennsylvania, USA

Chapter 3: Imperial Designs: Artificial Limbs on the Panama Canal Caroline Lieffers, Yale University, USA

Chapter 4: Of Ear Trumpets, Audiphones and the 'Language of the Fingers' (Kar Pallavi Bhasha): Technologies for the Deaf in British India, 1850-1950 Aparna Nair, University of Oklahoma, USA

Section II: World-Making Section Introduction

Chapter 5: The Ideologies of Designing for Disability Elizabeth Guffey, Purdue University, USA

Chapter 6: Modernizing Invalids: Architecture, Science, and Disabled Citizenship Wanda Katja Liebermann, Florida Atlantic University, USA

Chapter 7: The Right to Breathe Debra Parr, Columbia College Chicago, USA

Chapter 8: Design for Deaf Education: An Early History of the National Technical Institute for the Deaf Kristoffer Whitney, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA

Chapter 9: Walking Away from Universal Design Elizabeth Guffey, Purdue University, USA

Section 3: Making Disability Digital Section Introduction

Chapter 10: Standardized Technology and Exceptional Bodies: The Politics and Logistics of Ergonomic Design in American Offices Jennifer Kaufmann-Buhler, Purdue University, USA

Chapter 11: Designing Emergency Access: Lifeline & Life Call Elizabeth Ellcessor, University of Virginia, USA

Chapter 12: 3D Printed Prosthetic Limbs and the Uses of Design Bess Williamson, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA

Chapter 13: Materializing User Identities and Digital Humanities Jaipreet Virdi, University of Delaware, USA.

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781350070462

1350070459

9781350070455

OCLC:

1183963405

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.