Resources for Inclusive Design: Designing for Access and Disability
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Resources, labs, websites mentioned in the presentation:
- Adaptation + Ability Group, Sara Hendren's engineering lab at Olin College
- Critical Design Lab | Mapping Access, run by Aimi Hamraie, Vanderbilt University
- Designing for Disability Justice: On the need to take a variety of human bodies into account, Harvard University Graduate School of Design
- Engineering at Home, Olin College of Engineering
- Kids With Dreams, Stanford student service organization
- Magical Bridge playground (Palo Alto)
- Teach Access
- Web Accessibility Initiative, World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
- What is Universal Design?, Center for Excellence in Universal Design, National Disability Authority (Ireland)
Books, articles, talks recommended in the discussion:
- Accessible America: A History of Disability and Design by Bess Williamson
- Design Meets Disability by Graham Pullin
- “Design For All” by Bess Williamson
- Disability as Social and Speculative Design in the 20th-21st Century (recorded undergraduate-level lecture) by Bess Williamson
- Making Disability Modern: Design Histories, eds. Bess Williamson and Elizabeth Guffey
- “The Truest Cyborg I Know” by Sara Hendren
- “The White Cane as Technology” by Sara Hendren
- What Can a Body Do?: How We Meet the Built World by Sara Hendren
- Who Decides Where Autistic Adults Live? by Amy S.F. Lutz