Finally live: aplusa.org! A + A is the Adaptation and Ability Group, my lab at Olin College. It’s the first of a three-in-one site designed to keep distinct the work of the lab, the ongoing Abler archive that points to other people’s work, and then my own site for personal projects, essays, and the like. … 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 →

There’s a full report coming about students’ work on the alterpodium, along with images of the final prototype (in carbon fiber!), but I’m just sharing with you this gif so you get a sense for the interaction, assembly and disassembly. Read more about this project here. We’re shipping the newest one out this week; more info … Continue reading →

For a while I was running posts on a separate personal site, but I stopped and closed it down some time ago. Abler will be my only house for now. And I’ve decided to re-post some of those artifacts and ideas that still nourish me. Hope they might for some of you, too: From this … Continue reading →