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Monthly Archives: April 2012

douglas irving repetto’s ‘foal’
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douglas irving repetto’s ‘foal’

Posted on April 20, 2012 by sarahendren • Leave a comment

Douglas Irving Repetto’s “foal” project has been one of my favorites for years. Not sure why it took me so long to post it here. It’s a simple walking table—a piece of furniture that weirdly, animatedly, mimics the first tentative steps of a gangly animal. MoMA Bauhaus Labs: Walking Tables and Wrestling Foals from Plowshares … Continue reading »

what is universal design?
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what is universal design?

Posted on April 18, 2012 by sarahendren • 4 Comments

I’ve been emailing a bunch with Aimi Hamraie, soon to finish her Ph.D. at Emory University. Aimi’s researching universal design and disability politics in the built environment, among other things. We have a lot to talk about, and I’m hoping to post a long exchange between us here. It was Aimi’s research that pointed me … Continue reading »

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Abler is run by Sara Hendren. I'm tracking and commenting on art, adaptive technologies and prosthetics, the future of human bodies in the built environment, and related ideas. At my personal site, I document my own artworks and experiments in collaborative research.

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