Format:
1 online resource (241 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781350004252
Note:
Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Disability by Design? -- Design's misfit -- Defining disability -- Defining a symbol -- PART ONE History of an Idea: Access (-1961) -- 1 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 -- Notes -- 2 Fitting In (1945-1961) -- Accessing a culture on four wheels -- The Nugent ethic -- An attack on barriers -- Notes -- PART TWO Redesigning Signs and Space (1961-1974) -- 3 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 -- Notes -- 4 Signs of Discrimination (1965-1968) -- The secret signs of disabled people -- Positive discrimination and the psychology of disablement -- Toward a universal sign -- Notes -- 5 A Design for the Real World? (1968-1974) -- A technical aid -- Man and the environment -- A misfit head -- A positive step forward -- Notes -- PART THREE A Mark of Identity (1974-Today) -- 6 Signs of Protest (1974-1990) -- "The Selma of handicapped rights" -- Rights and protest -- Passing the ADA: Compliance and defiance -- 7 A Critical Design? (1990-Today) -- A cry for help -- A twenty-first-century makeover -- Notes -- Epilogue: The Beginning of the End? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Additional Edition:
Print version Guffey, Elizabeth Designing Disability London : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc,c2017 ISBN 9781350004276
Language:
English
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