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Designing disability : symbols, space, and society / Elizabeth Guffey.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: London, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2018Publisher: ©2018Description: xv, 223 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781350004276 (paperback)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • NA 2545  P5 G84 2018
Contents:
History of an Idea: Access ( -1961) -- Origins of the misfit design: the advent of the modern wheelchair ( -1945) -- Fitting in (1945-1961) -- Redesigning Signs and Space (1961-1974) -- The personal politics of signs (1961-1965) -- Signs of discrimination (1965-1968) -- A design for the real world? (1968-1974) -- A Mark of Identity? (1974-Today) -- Signs of protest (1974-1990) -- A critical design? (1990-today) -- Epilogue: the beginning of the end?
Summary: "Designing Disability traces the emergence of an idea and an ideal, physical access for the disabled through the evolution of the iconic International Symbol of Access (ISA). The book draws on design history, material culture and recent critical disability studies to examine not only the development of a design icon, but also the cultural history surrounding it."--Publisher's description.
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Book Book TUP Manila Library General Circulation Section-GF NA 2545 P5 G84 2018 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) c.1 Available P00033183

Includes bibliographical references (pages [195]-212) and index.

History of an Idea: Access ( -1961) -- Origins of the misfit design: the advent of the modern wheelchair ( -1945) -- Fitting in (1945-1961) -- Redesigning Signs and Space (1961-1974) -- The personal politics of signs (1961-1965) -- Signs of discrimination (1965-1968) -- A design for the real world? (1968-1974) -- A Mark of Identity? (1974-Today) -- Signs of protest (1974-1990) -- A critical design? (1990-today) -- Epilogue: the beginning of the end?

"Designing Disability traces the emergence of an idea and an ideal, physical access for the disabled through the evolution of the iconic International Symbol of Access (ISA). The book draws on design history, material culture and recent critical disability studies to examine not only the development of a design icon, but also the cultural history surrounding it."--Publisher's description.

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