December 2011
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Rethinking Disability & Design
Ghost Wheel Chair, 2011.
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about design’s ability to restructure how we see disability. The view most accepted by disability theorists and activists defines disability as a purely social category. The common medical understanding of disability, in contrast, can only create a very negative and restrictive view—one which supports that a disabled...