Join Sara Hendren, author of the new book What Can a Body Do? Hendren’s work explores the intersection of our physical abilities and the built environment. Close out 2020 with us by taking a step back to explore the nuances and opportunities inherent in the accessibility work we are all doing and reflect on how we can better serve our communities in 2021 and beyond.
This program will feature remarks by the author followed by time for questions and discussion. We encourage all program attendees to read the book to better-frame Hendren’s remarks.
Purchase What Can a Body Do? at the links found here on Indiebound or Amazon
Sara Hendren, Artist, Designer, and Researcher in Residence at Olin College
Twitter: @Ablerism
Website: sarahendren.com
Sara Hendren is an artist, design researcher, writer, and professor at Olin College of Engineering. She is the author of What Can A Body Do? How We Meet the Built World, published by Riverhead/Penguin Random House.
Sara is a humanist in tech. Her work of the last decade—lab and projects—includes collaborative public art and social design that engages the human body, technology, and the politics of disability: things like a lectern for short stature or a ramp for wheelchair dancing. She also co-founded the Accessible Icon Project, co-created a digital archive of low-tech prosthetics, and has a long-running obsession with the inclined plane.
Sara’s work has been exhibited at the Victoria & Albert Museum, the DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, The Vitra Design Museum, the Seoul Museum of Art and other venues and is held in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Cooper Hewitt Museum. At Olin, she is also the Principal Investigator on a three-year initiative to bring more arts experiences to engineering students and faculty, supported by the Mellon Foundation.