Download Flyer Abstract Is design informed by the lived experiences of disability inherently political? Several concepts exist within critical disability studies to name disability-led design. These include crip technoscience (Hamraie 2017; Hamraie and Fritsch 2019), “microactivist affordances” (Dokumaci 2020), “Criptastic hacking” (Yergeau 2014), and the “design theory of disability” (Guffey and Williamson). These approaches center […]
Month: August 2021
Keynote: Anne Waldschmidt “Inclusion – Accessibility – Normality: Some Remarks from a Dispositif-Analytical Perspective” 17 September 2021, 3:30-5pm (CEST)
Download Flyer Abstract It is Critical Disability Studies as an innovative discourse, which has significantly contributed to revising simplistic and individualistic views of disability and impairment. Introduced in the 1970s, the social model of disability has since fundamentally changed the international disability discourse. This approach, as Disability Studies scholars and disability rights activists know well, […]
Access and Tinkering: Designing Assistive Technologies as Political Practice
with an Interactive Maker Session 3rd meeting of the DFG Research Network Dis-/Abilities and Digital Media I am pleased to share our workshop/ symposium program with you, that I am co-organizing with Tom Bieling (Hamburg), Anna-Lena Wiechern (Lüneburg) and Robert Stock (Berlin). Workshop By drawing on STS, Crip Technoscience (Hamraie/Fritsch 2019) and approaches from participatory design research […]