[ONLINE] – Sara Hendren, What Can a Body Do?
How We Meet the Built World
- Virtual
- 12PM 鈥 1PM EDT
What Can a Body Do? is a fascinating and provocative new way of looking at the things we use and the spaces we inhabit, and a call to imagine a better-designed world for us all.
In a series of vivid stories drawn from the lived experience of disability and the ideas and innovations that have emerged from it鈥攆rom cyborg arms to customizable cardboard chairs to deaf architecture鈥Sara Hendren, in What Can a Body Do?, invites us to rethink the things and settings we live with. What might assistance based on the body鈥檚 stunning capacity for adaptation鈥攔ather than a rigid insistence on 鈥渘ormalcy鈥濃攍ook like? Can we foster interdependent, not just independent, living? How do we creatively engineer public spaces that allow us all to navigate our common terrain?
By rendering familiar objects and environments newly strange and wondrous, What Can a Body Do? helps us imagine a future that will better meet the extraordinary range of our collective needs and desires.
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Speakers:
Sara Hendren,
2018 Eric & Wendy Schmidt Fellow, 麻豆果冻传媒
Author, What Can a Body Do? How We Meet the Built World
Forest Young,
Global Principal, Wolff Olins
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