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David Serlin - Window Shopping with Helen Keller, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

Window Shopping with Helen Keller

Architecture and Disability in Modern Culture

Av David Serlin

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A particular history of how encounters between architects and people with disabilities transformed modern culture.  Window Shopping with Helen Keller recovers a series of influential moments when architects and designers engaged the embodied experiences of people with disabilities. David Serlin reveals how people with sensory and physical impairments navigated urban spaces and helped to shape modern culture. Through four case studies—the lives of Joseph Merrick (aka “The Elephant Man”) and Helen Keller, the projects of the Works Progress Administration, and the design of the Illinois Regional Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped—Serlin offers a new history of modernity’s entanglements with disability.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2025-01-16
  • Mått: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
  • Vikt: 340 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 272
  • Förlag: The University of Chicago Press
  • ISBN: 9780226748979
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David Serlin is professor of communication and science studies at the University of California, San Diego. He is author or editor of numerous books, including Replaceable You: Engineering the Body in Postwar America, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

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"[Serlin] casts intriguing new light on the Works Progress Administrationʼs relationships with disability. As the New Deal institution responsible for so much of the modern built environment, other scholars have pegged the WPA as deeply under the sway of eugenics, incorporating little accommodation for the elderly, infirm, or disabled, but Serlin surfaces evidence that in fact it contained fairly advanced thinking on disability. . . and that it was Cold War–era design that actually swept away disability-accommodating features."

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