Making Disability Modern

Making Disability Modern
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages : 265
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ISBN-10 : 9781350070448
ISBN-13 : 1350070440
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Book Synopsis Making Disability Modern by : Bess Williamson

Download or read book Making Disability Modern written by Bess Williamson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-07-23 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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