Making Disability Modern makes a good reader that maps out the areas of tension, new discourse, and discussion points about design and disability from practical, social, cultural, and technological perspectives. * Technology and Culture * This book makes visible often-obscured aspects of human life, the built environment, and societal factors that materialize through design, disability, and their intersections over history and across continents. -- Meryl Alper, Assistant Professor of Communication Studies, Northeastern University, USA A fascinating collection of critical cultural histories of disability objects, woven together with a narrative of the modern and its connotations in society, industry and design. We need more books like this to connect disability studies and design. -- Graham Pullin, Professor of Design and Disability, University of Dundee, UK At last! Since the publication in 2002 of the groundbreaking anthology, Artificial Parts, Practical Lives: Modern Histories of Prosthetics (NYU Press), scholarship has boomed at the intersection of disability studies and the history of technology. This new collection from Bloomsbury brings readers up to date with developments in the field, revising familiar historical throughlines with an original design model of disability. Rather than situate disability outside modernism, with its predilection for clean lines and average bodies, the authors in Making Disability Modern rethink dismodern design and the modern ambitions of disabled designers themselves. -- Mara Mills, Associate Professor of Media, Culture and Communication, New York University, USA
