
Designing Disability
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Infirmity and illness may be seen as part of human experience, but 'disability' is a social construct, a way of thinking about and responding to a natural human condition. Elizabeth Guffey's highly original and wide-ranging study considers the period both before and after the introduction of the ISA, tracing the design history of the wheelchair, a product which revolutionised the mobility needs of many disabled people from the 1930s onwards. She also examines the rise of 'barrier-free architecture' in the reception of the ISA, and explores how the symbol became widely adopted and even a mark of identity for some, especially within the Disability Rights Movement.
Yet despite the social progress which is inextricably linked to the ISA, a growing debate has unfurled around the symbol and its meanings. The most vigorous critiques today have involved guerrilla art, graffiti and studio practice, reflecting new challenges to the relationship between design and disability in the twenty-first century.
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Introduction: Disability By Design?
Design's Misfit
Defining Disability
Defining a Symbol
PART ONE: History of an Idea: Access (- 1961)
Origins of a Misfit Design: The Advent of the Modern
Wheelchair (- 1945)
An Environmental Misfit
A Symbol of Defeat?
How to Behave in a Bath-Chair
The Chair That Changed the World
Fitting In (1945 - 1961)
Accessing a Culture on Four Wheels
The Nugent Ethic
An Attack on Barriers
PART TWO: Redesigning Signs and Space (1961 - 1974)
The Personal Politics of Signs (1961 - 1965)
What a Good Sign Can Do
Down the "Welfare Path"
The Ideologies of "Self-Help" and "Social Welfare Cultures"
Breaking Barriers
Signs of Discrimination (1965 - 1968)
The Secret Signs of Disabled People
Positive Discrimination and the Psychology of Disablement
Towards s Universal Sign
A Design for the Real World? (1968 - 1974)
A Technical Aid
Man and The Environment
A Misfit Head
A Positive Step Forward
PART THREE: A Mark of Identity? (1974 - Today)
Signs of Protest (1974 - 1990)
"The Selma of Handicapped Rights"
Rights and Protest
Passing the ADA: Compliance and Defiance
A Critical Design? (1990 - Today)
A Cry for Help
A 21st Century Makeover
Epilogue: The Beginning of the End?
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