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Sara Hendren – What Can a Body Do?

October 6, 2020

The CREATE Conversation Hub hosts a live Q&A with Sara Hendren on the future of mobility and lessons she learned through writing her new book, What Can A Body Do? How We Meet the Built World.

Sara Hendren: Future visions of mobility and lessons learned through writing What Can A Body Do? How We Meet the Built World

January 8, 2021 at 11 a.m. Pacific time (2 p.m. Eastern time)

Sara Hendren is an artist, design researcher, writer, and professor at Olin College of Engineering. Her work spans collaborative public art and social design that engages the human body, technology, and the politics of disability — such as a lectern for short stature or a ramp for wheelchair dancing. She also co-founded the Accessible Icon Project. 

Read more about Hendren’s book, What Can A Body Do? How We Meet the Built World? in the New Yorker Review and on https://sarahendren.com/.

Sara Hendren in a green jacket with brown hair pulled back, standing oustide in front of fence with ivy.
Cover of Sara Hendren's book, "What Can A Body Do? How We Meet the Built World" with a bright yellow background


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