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Author:   Bess Williamson ,  Elizabeth Guffey
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Dimensions:   Width: 15.00cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.400kg
ISBN:  

9781350070424

ISBN 10:   1350070424
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   20 August 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of 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 Introduction 1. The Material Culture of Gout in Early America, Nicole Belolan (Rutgers University, USA) 2. Walking Cane Style and Medicalized Mobility, Cara Kiernan Fallon (University of Pennsylvania, USA) 3. Artificial Limbs on the Panama Canal, Caroline Lieffers (Yale University, USA) 4. Technologies for the Deaf in British India, 1850–1950, Aparna Nair (University of Oklahoma, USA) Section II: Disability and World-Making in the Twentieth Century Introduction 5. The Ideologies of Designing for Disability, Elizabeth Guffey (Purdue University, USA) 6. Architecture, Science, and Disabled Citizenship, Wanda Katja Liebermann (Florida Atlantic University, USA) 7. Disability and Modern Chemical Sensitivities, Debra Riley Parr (Columbia College Chicago, USA) 8. Design for Deaf Education: An Early History of the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, Kristoffer Whitney (Rochester Institute of Technology, USA) 9. Designing the Japanese Walking Bag, Elizabeth Guffey (Purdue University, USA) Section III: Making Disability Digital Introduction 10. The Politics and Logistics of Ergonomic Design, Jennifer Kaufmann-Buhler (Purdue University, USA) 11. Designing Emergency Access: Lifeline & LifeCall, Elizabeth Ellcessor (University of Virginia, USA) 12. 3D Printed Prosthetics and the Uses of Design, Bess Williamson (School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA) 13. Materializing User Identities and Digital Humanities, Jaipreet Virdi (University of Delaware, USA)

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Making Disability Modern makes a good reader that maps out the areas of tension, new discourse, and discussion points about design and disability from practical, social, cultural, and technological perspectives. * Technology and Culture * This book makes visible often-obscured aspects of human life, the built environment, and societal factors that materialize through design, disability, and their intersections over history and across continents. -- Meryl Alper, Assistant Professor of Communication Studies, Northeastern University, USA A fascinating collection of critical cultural histories of disability objects, woven together with a narrative of ‘the modern’ and its connotations in society, industry and design. We need more books like this to connect disability studies and design. -- Graham Pullin, Professor of Design and Disability, University of Dundee, UK At last! Since the publication in 2002 of the groundbreaking anthology, Artificial Parts, Practical Lives: Modern Histories of Prosthetics (NYU Press), scholarship has boomed at the intersection of disability studies and the history of technology. This new collection from Bloomsbury brings readers up to date with developments in the field, revising familiar historical throughlines with an original “design model of disability.” Rather than situate disability outside modernism, with its predilection for clean lines and average bodies, the authors in Making Disability Modern rethink “dismodern” design and the modern ambitions of disabled designers themselves. -- Mara Mills, Associate Professor of Media, Culture and Communication, New York University, USA

This book makes visible often-obscured aspects of human life, the built environment, and societal factors that materialize through design, disability, and their intersections over history and across continents. -- Meryl Alper, Assistant Professor of Communication Studies, Northeastern University, USA A fascinating collection of critical cultural histories of disability objects, woven together with a narrative of 'the modern' and its connotations in society, industry and design. We need more books like this to connect disability studies and design. -- Graham Pullin, Professor of Design and Disability, University of Dundee, UK At last! Since the publication in 2002 of the groundbreaking anthology, Artificial Parts, Practical Lives: Modern Histories of Prosthetics (NYU Press), scholarship has boomed at the intersection of disability studies and the history of technology. This new collection from Bloomsbury brings readers up to date with developments in the field, revising familiar historical throughlines with an original design model of disability. Rather than situate disability outside modernism, with its predilection for clean lines and average bodies, the authors in Making Disability Modern rethink dismodern design and the modern ambitions of disabled designers themselves. -- Mara Mills, Associate Professor of Media, Culture and Communication, New York University, USA

This book makes visible often-obscured aspects of human life, the built environment, and societal factors that materialize through design, disability, and their intersections over history and across continents.

Author Information

Elizabeth Guffey is Professor of Art and Design History at Purchase College, State University of New York, USA, where she also heads the MA in Modern and Contemporary Art. She is the author of Designing Disability: Symbols, Space, and Society (Bloomsbury, 2017), Posters: A Global History (2014), and Retro: The Culture of Revival (2002). Bess Williamson is Associate Professor of Design History at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she teaches courses on modern and contemporary design in relation to politics and social change. Her book, Accessible America: A History of Disability and Design (2019), describes the role of design in the US Disability Rights cause of the last half of the 20th century.

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