After Universal Design
The Disability Design Revolution
Published on 15. June 2023
Book
Hardback
240 pages
978-1-350-24151-0 (ISBN)
Description
How might we develop products made with and by disabled users rather than for them? Could we change living and working spaces to make them accessible rather than designing products that "fix" disabilities? How can we grow our capabilities to make designs more "bespoke" to each individual? After Universal Design brings together scholars, practitioners, and disabled users and makers to consider these questions and to argue for the necessity of a new user-centered design.
As many YouTube videos demonstrate, disabled designers are not only fulfilling the grand promises of DIY design but are also questioning what constitutes meaningful design itself. By forcing a rethink of the top-down professionalized practice of Universal Design, which has dominated thinking and practice around design for disability for decades, this book models what inclusive design and social justice can look like as activism, academic research, and everyday life practices today.
With chapters, case studies, and interviews exploring questions of design and personal agency, hardware and spaces, the experiences of prosthetics' users, conventional hearing aid devices designed to suit personal style, and ways of facilitating pain self-reporting, these essays expand our understanding of what counts as design by offering alternative narratives about creativity and making. Using critical perspectives on disability, race, and gender, this book allow us to understand how design often works in the real world and challenges us to rethink ideas of "inclusion" in design.
As many YouTube videos demonstrate, disabled designers are not only fulfilling the grand promises of DIY design but are also questioning what constitutes meaningful design itself. By forcing a rethink of the top-down professionalized practice of Universal Design, which has dominated thinking and practice around design for disability for decades, this book models what inclusive design and social justice can look like as activism, academic research, and everyday life practices today.
With chapters, case studies, and interviews exploring questions of design and personal agency, hardware and spaces, the experiences of prosthetics' users, conventional hearing aid devices designed to suit personal style, and ways of facilitating pain self-reporting, these essays expand our understanding of what counts as design by offering alternative narratives about creativity and making. Using critical perspectives on disability, race, and gender, this book allow us to understand how design often works in the real world and challenges us to rethink ideas of "inclusion" in design.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
23 bw illus
Dimensions
Height: 162 mm
Width: 238 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
660 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-350-24151-0 (9781350241510)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Elizabeth Guffey is Professor of Art and Design History and directs the MA in Modern and Contemporary Art, Criticism and Theory at the State University of New York, Purchase College, USA. She is co-editor of Making Disability Modern (Bloomsbury, 2020) and author of Designing Disability (Bloomsbury, 2018), Posters: A Global History (2015) and Retro: The Culture of Revival (2013). She is Founding Editor of Design and Culture journal and has also published essays in a number of popular publications, including The New York Times and The Nation.
Content
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Glossary of Terms
Introduction: A Universal Conundrum, Elizabeth Guffey (SUNY, Purchase College, USA)
Section One: Agency
Section Introduction
Key Points
1. Four Commitments of Crip Technoscience, Kelly Fritsch (Carleton University, Canada) and Aimi Hamraie (Vanderbilt University, USA)
2. Fixing Meets Expressing: Design by Designers with Disability Experience, Natalia Perez Liebergesell, Peter-Willem Vermeersch, and Ann Heylighen (KU Leuven, Belgium)
3. Case Study: Brett's Leather Case, Jaipreet Virdi (University of Delaware, USA)
4. Case Study: Zebreda Makes It Work! and the "Key" to Innovation, Elizabeth Guffey (SUNY, Purchase College, USA)
5. Case Study: Privileging Agency: A Conversation with Design and Disability Advocate Jessica Ryan-Ndegwa, Alison Kurdock Adams (SUNY, Purchase College, USA)
6. Case Study: Rehabilitation Technology at the Self-Help Shop Then and Now, Bess Williamson (SAIC, USA)
7. Case Study: Beyond the Bespoke: Agency and The Hands of X, Andrew Cook and Graham Pullin (University of Dundee, UK)
8. Case Study: Re-imagining Access and Its Pedagogies, Maggie Hendrie, Joshua Halstead, Robert Dirig, Elise Co, and Todd Masilko (ArtCenter College of Design, USA)
Section Two: Equity
Section Introduction
Key Points
9. Equations for Reducing Disability Stigma through Design Equity, Josh Halstead (ArtCenter College of Design, USA)
10. Making Equity: How the Disability Community Met the Maker Movement, Emeline Brule (University of Sussex, UK)
11. Case Study: Shaping Inclusive and Equitable Makerspaces, Katherine M. Steele (University of Washington, USA)
12. Case Study: A Study of Skilled Craftwork among Blind Fiber Artists, Maitraye Das and Katya Borgos-Rodriguez (Northwestern University, USA), and Anne Marie Piper (University of California, USA)
13. Case Study: Towards Sensory Equity: A More Inclusive Museum Space Designed from Disability Experience, Peter-Willem Vermeersch and Ann Heylighen (KU Leuven, Belgium)
14. Case Study: The Politics of Friction: Designing a Sex Toy for Every Body, David Serlin (UC San Diego, USA)
15. Case Study: The Face-Based Pain Scale: A Tool for Whom? Gabi Schaffzin (York University, Canada)
16. Case Study: Next Practice: Towards Equalities Design, Natasha Trotman (RCA, UK)
Section Three: Speculation
Section Introduction
Key Points
17. Speculative Making, Sara Hendren (Olin College of Engineering, USA)
18. Speculating on Upstanding Norms, Ashley Shew (Virginia Tech, USA)
19. Case Study: M Eifler's Prosthetic Memory as Speculative Archive, Lindsey D. Felt (Stanford University, USA)
20. Case Study: The Way Ahead, Caroline Cardus (Independent Artist, UK)
21. Case Study: Customizing Reading: Harvey Lauer's "Reading Machine of the Future", Mara Mills (New York University, USA)
22. Case Study: "Captioning on Captioning" with Shannon Finnegan, Louise Hickman (University of Cambridge, UK)
23. Case Study: A Squishy House, Emily Watlington (Art in America, USA)
24. Case Study: Black Disabled Joy as an Act of Resistance, Jen White-Johnson (Bowie State University, USA)
List of Contributors
Index
Acknowledgments
Glossary of Terms
Introduction: A Universal Conundrum, Elizabeth Guffey (SUNY, Purchase College, USA)
Section One: Agency
Section Introduction
Key Points
1. Four Commitments of Crip Technoscience, Kelly Fritsch (Carleton University, Canada) and Aimi Hamraie (Vanderbilt University, USA)
2. Fixing Meets Expressing: Design by Designers with Disability Experience, Natalia Perez Liebergesell, Peter-Willem Vermeersch, and Ann Heylighen (KU Leuven, Belgium)
3. Case Study: Brett's Leather Case, Jaipreet Virdi (University of Delaware, USA)
4. Case Study: Zebreda Makes It Work! and the "Key" to Innovation, Elizabeth Guffey (SUNY, Purchase College, USA)
5. Case Study: Privileging Agency: A Conversation with Design and Disability Advocate Jessica Ryan-Ndegwa, Alison Kurdock Adams (SUNY, Purchase College, USA)
6. Case Study: Rehabilitation Technology at the Self-Help Shop Then and Now, Bess Williamson (SAIC, USA)
7. Case Study: Beyond the Bespoke: Agency and The Hands of X, Andrew Cook and Graham Pullin (University of Dundee, UK)
8. Case Study: Re-imagining Access and Its Pedagogies, Maggie Hendrie, Joshua Halstead, Robert Dirig, Elise Co, and Todd Masilko (ArtCenter College of Design, USA)
Section Two: Equity
Section Introduction
Key Points
9. Equations for Reducing Disability Stigma through Design Equity, Josh Halstead (ArtCenter College of Design, USA)
10. Making Equity: How the Disability Community Met the Maker Movement, Emeline Brule (University of Sussex, UK)
11. Case Study: Shaping Inclusive and Equitable Makerspaces, Katherine M. Steele (University of Washington, USA)
12. Case Study: A Study of Skilled Craftwork among Blind Fiber Artists, Maitraye Das and Katya Borgos-Rodriguez (Northwestern University, USA), and Anne Marie Piper (University of California, USA)
13. Case Study: Towards Sensory Equity: A More Inclusive Museum Space Designed from Disability Experience, Peter-Willem Vermeersch and Ann Heylighen (KU Leuven, Belgium)
14. Case Study: The Politics of Friction: Designing a Sex Toy for Every Body, David Serlin (UC San Diego, USA)
15. Case Study: The Face-Based Pain Scale: A Tool for Whom? Gabi Schaffzin (York University, Canada)
16. Case Study: Next Practice: Towards Equalities Design, Natasha Trotman (RCA, UK)
Section Three: Speculation
Section Introduction
Key Points
17. Speculative Making, Sara Hendren (Olin College of Engineering, USA)
18. Speculating on Upstanding Norms, Ashley Shew (Virginia Tech, USA)
19. Case Study: M Eifler's Prosthetic Memory as Speculative Archive, Lindsey D. Felt (Stanford University, USA)
20. Case Study: The Way Ahead, Caroline Cardus (Independent Artist, UK)
21. Case Study: Customizing Reading: Harvey Lauer's "Reading Machine of the Future", Mara Mills (New York University, USA)
22. Case Study: "Captioning on Captioning" with Shannon Finnegan, Louise Hickman (University of Cambridge, UK)
23. Case Study: A Squishy House, Emily Watlington (Art in America, USA)
24. Case Study: Black Disabled Joy as an Act of Resistance, Jen White-Johnson (Bowie State University, USA)
List of Contributors
Index