| Contents |
A Universal Conundrum / Elizabeth Guffey -- Section One: Agency -- Four Commitments of Crip Technoscience / Kelly Fritsch and Aimi Hamraie -- Fixing Meets Expressing: Design by Designers with Disability Experience / Natalia Perez Liebergesell, Peter-Willem Vermeersch, and Ann Heylighen -- Case Study: Brett's Leather Case / Jaipreet Virdi -- Case Study: Zebreda Makes It Work! and the "Key" to Innovation / Elizabeth Guffey -- Case Study: Privileging Agency: A Conversation with Design and Disability Advocate Jessica Ryan-Ndegwa / Alison Kurdock Adams -- Case Study: Rehabilitation Technology at the Self-Help Shop Then and Now / Bess Williamson -- Case Study: Beyond the Bespoke: Agency and The Hands of X / Andrew Cook and Graham Pullin -- Case Study: Re-imagining Access and Its Pedagogies / Maggie Hendrie, Joshua Halstead, Robert Dirig, Elise Co, and Todd Masilko -- Section Two: Equity Section -- Equations for Reducing Disability Stigma through Design Equity / Josh Halstead -- Making Equity: How the Disability Community Met the Maker Movement / Emeline Brule -- Case Study: Shaping Inclusive and Equitable Makerspaces / Katherine M. Steele -- Case Study: A Study of Skilled Craftwork among Blind Fiber Artists / Maitraye Das and Katya Borgos-Rodriguez and Anne Marie Piper-- Case Study: Towards Sensory Equity: A More Inclusive Museum Space Designed from Disability Experience / Peter-Willem Vermeersch and Ann Heylighen -- Case Study: The Politics of Friction: Designing a Sex Toy for Every Body / David Serlin -- Case Study: The Face-Based Pain Scale: A Tool for Whom? / Gabi Schaffzin -- Case Study: Next Practice: Towards Equalities Design / Natasha Trotman -- Section Three: Speculation -- Speculative Making / Sara Hendren -- Speculating on Upstanding Norms / Ashley Shew -- Case Study: M Eifler's Prosthetic Memory as Speculative Archive / Lindsey D. Felt -- Case Study: The Way Ahead / Caroline Cardus -- Case Study: Customizing Reading: Harvey Lauer's "Reading Machine of the Future" / Mara Mills -- Case Study: "Captioning on Captioning" with Shannon Finnegan / Louise Hickman -- Case Study: A Squishy House / Emily Watlington -- Case Study: Black Disabled Joy as an Act of Resistance / Jen White-Johnson. |
| Abstract |
"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"-- Publisher's description. |
