notes, 22-24 september

for Tuesday 29 September,
read the first (introductory) chapter “Who Is the World Built For,”
in Sarah Hendren her What Can a Body Do? : How We Meet the Built World (2020)
have some thoughts about or prompted by your reading, perhaps written down (in margins?)

in room : Rowan, Adam, May
remote : Paige, Leslie, Nate

have changed who might normally be in room/remote, because of absences last Thursday.
“remote” people are welcome to come in, perhaps can sit in studio area (so that we can maintain social distancing)

if showing work, please do so via the course blog, or as “presentation” from google drive.
we know that holding work up to laptop/phone camera is less than optimal (but sometimes can’t be helped)

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Sara Hendren
accessible icon project
more, on same

Alterpodium
with Amanda Cachia / March 2014–ongoing

from Hendren‘s “Who Is the World Built For” —

1. ...that she lives with the disabling conditions of the world... (6)
2. Designers work from what’s called a brief... at its best, a brief is packed with questions that can be addressed by any number of methods... (7)
3. But how do you make a charismatic thing... (8)
4. discussion of “normal” pp 10-14
5. aside (disability, might include other factors too, including history of slavery, economic/social class, etc...)
6. discussion of art, philosophy poetry vs engineering (18)
7. personal factors of “misfit” — autism spectrum, dyslexia, chronic depression... (19)
8. the author’s social life filling up with “people who are blind or deaf or use wheelchairs—and whose everyday routines were also replete with tools” — the importance of such encounters, conversations, new perspectives (21)
9. the dynamics of a design class : dyads of teacher and student, the triad of teacher + student + the “thing we’re building together” (22)
10. “A shared material task will direct everyone‘s gaze to the work at hand, but good collaborations are structured by relationships that you can’t just assume. They don’t arrive without effort. They’re also built.” (23)
11. on iterations (not just discussing the possibilities and debating choices in the abstract) (24
12. things, stuff (that’s not yet junk or trash) : “It is the very nature of all our stuff to give us help.” (25)
13. relationship of tools to the body (26-27)
14. “...design can include making something new, but it can also include unmaking the world as it is, or perhaps remaking it, with parts and systems alike.” (28)
15. more on the body, and the in/stability of that body... Deleuze on Spinoza on “what can a body do?” (29-30)
16. the vantage point of the untypical — “...many nondisabled people have never really considered that disability as an experience myight indeed be... a generative and restless vantage — a view on the world...” (31)

and, related somewhat (if only tangentially) to Hendren’s chapter —

‘There is a fear that this will eradicate dwarfism’ The controversy over a new growth drug
A new treatment could help children with achondroplasia, the most common form of dwarfism, grow taller and avoid health problems in later life. But there are concerns about whether this is ethical
Emine Saner. The Guardian (28 September 2020)

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things / discarded things

duck/duct tape
Duct tape (also called duck tape, from the material it was originally made of) is cloth- or scrim-backed pressure-sensitive tape, often coated with polyethylene.
wikipedia

Hari-Kuyō (Japanese: 針供養) is the Japanese Buddhist and Shinto Festival of Broken Needles
wikipedia
this in relation to “junk,” trash, people’s relationships to the things that have aided/comforted them, but have outlived their usefulness.

Ode to Broken Things / Pablo Neruda (1904-1973)
many translations out there; this is nice, because of the wunderkammern shown with it

Jenny Odell,
Bureau of Suspended Objects
related tumblr

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ICD-10 / Mental Health classifications/codes

ICD-10
International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems 10th Revision (ICD-10)
Chapter V, Mental and behavioural disorders
(F00-F99)
Incl.: disorders of psychological development

ICD-10 Mental Health Billable Diagnosis Codes in Alphabetical Order by Description