Welcome, reader! Abler is no longer updated, but if you want to get a sense for how you can use the content here, I’ve written some guides below. For Sara Hendren’s current projects and writing, see her site. Rethinking the high-tech/low-tech divide. Conversations about prosthetics still tend to assume that complicated and next-generation technologies must, by … Continue reading →

I’m sitting on the thesis committee for a graduate student in biomechatronics—a PhD project that will be entirely technical. This student reached out to me to ask about placing engineering for disability in a larger social context, and I’m glad for the opportunity to think about what’s an essential primer in disability studies, appropriate for … Continue reading →

There’s much more detail to come on this, but you can see here some images from Slope : Intercept’s most recent iteration, a collaboration with dancer Alice Sheppard. MediaCity Seoul invited me last year to design some ramps for the biennial that opened last month (September ’16), and in the meanwhile, my lab worked with … Continue reading →

Readers, there’s a brand new site coming soon: a 3-part site, with lots of overdue documentation of new work, my lab, teaching, writing. The featured image is from a collaboration with Alice Sheppard that I’ll tell you all about. I can’t wait! But for now—a commencement speech I gave for Olin’s 2016 class. My first: … Continue reading →

I’m so pleased my talk at Eyeo is now online, with closed captions available, and another version with audio description. Eyeo folks are super to work with, and I’m grateful to have had the chance to look back at my last ten years of work and identify the big themes and turning points. I tell … Continue reading →

This fall’s version of Investigating Normal will include several dream collaborators: Lacy Gillotti of NEADS, a service dog training organization, Alex Geller of Fathom Info, with whom we’ll be exploring disability and the school-to-prison pipeline, Mel Chua, a postdoc at Olin who is deaf, has spent her life “passing” as hearing, and will be getting a cochlear … Continue reading →

Coming soon: a new home and new direction for the Accessible Icon Project. Next week! Thanks to a bunch of you for the exhortations we’ve needed to write more clearly about the work.     Continue reading →