Error loading page.
Try refreshing the page. If that doesn't work, there may be a network issue, and you can use our self test page to see what's preventing the page from loading.
Learn more about possible network issues or contact support for more help.
Advanced
Title details for Making Disability Modern by Bess Williamson - Available

Making Disability Modern

by Bess Williamson
Elizabeth Guffey
ebook
Read a sample Read a sample
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.
Expand title description text
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Kindle Book

  • Release date: July 23, 2020

OverDrive Read

  • ISBN: 9781350070448
  • Release date: July 23, 2020

EPUB ebook

  • ISBN: 9781350070448
  • File size: 3764 KB
  • Release date: July 23, 2020

Formats

Kindle Book
OverDrive Read
EPUB ebook

subjects

Art Sociology Nonfiction

Languages

English

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.
Expand title description text
Art Sociology Nonfiction
Check Out What's Being Checked Out Right NowThe Ohio Digital Library is a program of the State Library of Ohio and is supported in whole or in part by federal Institute of Museum and Library Services funds, awarded to the State Library of Ohio.