Design Justice Book Club: What Can A Body Do?

The Design Justice Book Club continues the conversation from the 2020 Place Setting Book Club series that asked how we envision and create radically inclusive places that facilitate and support equitable communities.

Join this free book club for one or all four discussions reviewing books that highlight how architects, designers, and planners can foster universal inclusion and fairness in the built environment within the places and communities we impact, both locally and globally.

July 27, 2022: What Can A Body Do? by Sara Hendren

The book club discussion is free and virtual only. The author, Sara Hendren, will be present!

About the book: A fascinating and provocative new way of looking at the things we use and the spaces we inhabit, and a call to imagine a better-designed world for us all. Furniture and tools, kitchens and campuses and city streets—nearly everything human beings make and use is assistive technology, meant to bridge the gap between body and world. Yet unless, or until, a misfit between our own body and the world is acute enough to be understood as disability, we may never stop to consider—or reconsider—the hidden assumptions on which our everyday environment is built.

Future Design Justice Book Club Discussions:

• September, 2022: The Accommodation by Jim Schutze
• December 7, 2022: Barrio America by A.K. Sandoval Strausz

Joining is free, but copies of each book are not provided. You can order a copy and support the AD EX, by ordering through Amazon Smile! Go to smile.amazon.com and search for and select Architecture and Design Foundation before making your purchase.