WEEK 01 (Jan 11). SEMINAR (LwH 2270C). Introduction

Copies of readings are in the Resources section of the OWL site.

Berne, Patricia, et al. “Ten Principles of Disability Justice,” WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly 46, nos. 1-2 (2018): 227-230.
Costanza-Chock, Design Justice, “Introduction: #TravelingWhileTrans, Design Justice, and Escape from the Matrix of Domination”
D’Ignazio, Catherine and Lauren F. Klein. “Introduction: Why Data Science Needs Feminism.” In Data Feminism. MIT, 2020.
Goodley, Dan J. Disability Studies (2011), “Introduction: Global Disability Studies”
Kafer, Alison. “Introduction: Imagined Futures.” In Feminist Queer Crip. Indiana University, 2013.
Kudlick, Catherine J. “Disability History: Why We Need Another ‘Other’.” American Historical Review 108, no. 3 (2003): 763-793.
Williamson, Accessible America, “Introduction: Disability, Design and Rights in the Twentieth Century”


WEEK 02 (Jan 18). STUDIO (SSC 3116). Guided exploration 1

Storyboards; Makedo; MaKey MaKey.

Diane Borsato, Artifacts in My Mouth (2003) 
https://www.dianeborsato.net/artifacts-in-my-mouth
https://collections.mnbaq.org/fr/oeuvre/600031195


WEEK 03 (Jan 25). SEMINAR (LwH 2270C). Prosthesis and Disability Things

Goodley, Dan J. Disability Studies (2011), “Debates: Political Disability Studies”
Haiken, Elizabeth. “Modern Miracles: The Development of Cosmetic Prosthetics.” In Ott, Serlin, and Mihm, eds. Artificial Parts, Practical Lives. NYU, 2002.
Hamraie, Aimi and Kelly Fritsch. “Crip Technoscience Manifesto.” Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience 5, no. 1 (2019): 1-34.
Nario-Redmond, Michelle R., Dobromir Gospodinov, and Angela Cobb. “Crip for a Day: The Unintended Negative Consequences of Disability Simulations,” Rehabilitation Psychology 62, no. 3 (2017): 324-333.
Ott, Katherine. “Disability Things: Material Culture and American Disability History, 1700-2010.” In Burch & Rembis, eds. Disability Histories. University of Illinois, 2014.
Sobin, Gustave. “The Skull with the Seashell Ear,” from Luminous Debris. University of California, 1999.
Srinivasan, Raman. “Technology Sits Cross-Legged: Developing the Jaipur Foot Prosthesis.” In Ott, Serlin, and Mihm, eds. Artificial Parts, Practical Lives. NYU, 2002.
Williamson, Accessible America, “Ch 1. Progress Through Prosthetics: Limbs, Cars, Houses, and the American Dream” and “Ch 2. Disability in the Century of the Gadget: Rehabilitation and Access in Postwar America”


WEEK 04 (Feb 1). STUDIO (SSC 3116). Guided exploration 2

Designing in 2D; laser cutting demo; packaging and popup books; hi-low technology.

Disability Visibility Project
https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/


WEEK 05 (Feb 8). SEMINAR (LwH 2270C). DIY, Differences and Disaffordances

Costanza-Chock, Design Justice, “Ch 1. Design Values: Hard-Coding Liberation”
Garland-Thomson, Rosemarie. “Integrating Disability, Transforming Feminist Theory”. In Davis, ed. The Disability Studies Reader, 5th ed. Routledge, 2017.
Goodley, Dan J. Disability Studies (2011), “Intersections: Diverse Disability Studies”
McRuer, Robert. “Compulsory Able-Bodiedness and Queer/Disabled Existence.” In Davis, ed. The Disability Studies Reader, 5th ed. Routledge, 2017.
Williamson, Accessible America, “Ch 3. Electric Moms and Quad Drivers: Do-It-Yourself Access at Home in Postwar America” and “Ch 4. Berkeley, California: An Independent Style of Access”


WEEK 06 (Feb 15). STUDIO (SSC 3116). Guided exploration 3

Designing in 3D; 3D printing  demo; mechanical design; VEX.

Disability History Museum
https://www.disabilitymuseum.org/dhm/index.html


SPRING READING WEEK (Feb 22)

WEEK 07 (Mar 1). SEMINAR (LwH 2270C). Resistance is Fertile

Bell, Chris. “Is Disability Studies Actually White Disability Studies?” In Davis, ed. The Disability Studies Reader, 5th ed. Routledge, 2017.
Costanza-Chock, Design Justice, “Ch 2. Design Practices: ‘Nothing About Us Without Us'” and “Ch 3. Design Narratives: From TXTMob to Twitter”
Hicks, Mar. “Hacking the Cis-tem,” IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 41, no. 1 (2019):20-33.
Kon, Rebecca and Kate Zankowicz. “Building Anti-Ableist Museum Education Practices: A Reflection and Facilitation Toolkit,” Journal of Museum Education 47, no. 2 (2022): 206-22.
Law, John. “What’s Wrong with a One-World World?” Distinktion: Scandinavian Journal of Social Theory 16, no. 1 (2015): 126-139.
Williamson, Accessible America, “Ch 5. Kneeling to the Disabled: Access and Backlash” and “Ch 6. From Accessible to Universal: Design in the Late Twentieth Century”


WEEK 08 (Mar 8). STUDIO (SSC 3116). Guided exploration 4

Intro electronics; littleBits.

Tangled: Art + Disability
https://tangledarts.org/


WEEK 09 (Mar 15). SEMINAR (LwH 2270C). Cripping Design

Costanza-Chock, Design Justice, “Ch 4. Design Sites: Hackerspaces, Fablabs, Hackathons, and DiscoTechs” and “Ch 5. Design Pedagogies: ‘There’s Something Wrong with This System!'”
Kafer, Alison. “Time for Disability Studies and a Future for Crips.” In Feminist Queer Crip. Indiana University, 2013.
Moser, Ingunn. “On Becoming Disabled and Articulating Alternatives: The Multiple Modes of Ordering Disability and Their Interferences.” Cultural Studies 19, no. 6 (2005): 667-700.
Rosner, Daniella K. “Introduction: Why Fabulate Design?” Critical Fabulations: Reworking the Methods and Margins of Design. MIT, 2018.
Williamson, Accessible America, “Ch 7. Beyond Ramps: Cripping Design”
Wu, Di. “Cripping the History of Computing,” IEEE Annals of the History of Computing (2021): 68-72.


WEEK 10 (Mar 22). STUDIO (SSC 3116).  Work on final project

If you don’t have a firm idea of a topic you would like to explore, choose one of the course readings, a chapter from one of the course books, or a chapter from Ott, Serlin, and Mihm, eds. Artificial Parts, Practical Lives, Williamson and Guffey, eds. Making Disability Modern, or Burch and Rembis, eds. Disability Histories.

Universal Design for Learning Guidelines
https://udlguidelines.cast.org/


WEEK 11 (Mar 29). SEMINAR (LwH 2270C). Futures

Bauman, H-Dirksen L. and Joseph J. Murray. “Deaf Studies in the 21st Century: ‘Deaf-Gain’ and the Future of Human Diversity.” In Davis, ed. The Disability Studies Reader, 5th ed. Routledge, 2017.
Costanza-Chock, Design Justice, “Directions for Future Work: From #TechWontBuildIt to #DesignJustice”
Goodley, Dan J. Disability Studies (2011), “Developments: Critical Disability Studies”
Kafer, Alison. “A Future for Whom? Passing on Billboard Liberation.” In Feminist Queer Crip. Indiana University, 2013.
Risam, Roopika. “A Call to Action,” from New Digital Worlds: Postcolonial Digital Humanities in Theory, Praxis, and Pedagogy. Northwestern University, 2018. 
Williamson, Accessible America, “Conclusion: Design for All?”


WEEK 12 (Apr 5). STUDIO (SSC 3116). FINAL PROJECT DEMONSTRATIONS

Disability Intersectionality Summit
https://www.disabilityintersectionalitysummit.com/places-to-start
Required Books

Costanza-Chock, Sasha. Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need. MIT Press, 2020.
Williamson, Bess. Accessible America: A History of Disability and Design. NYU, 2019. 
Other Useful Books

Burch, Susan and Michael Rembis, eds. Disability Histories. University of Illinois, 2014.
D’Ignazio, Catherine and Lauren F. Klein. Data Feminism. MIT, 2020.
Goodley, Dan. Disability Studies: An Interdisciplinary Introduction. SAGE, 2011 or 2nd ed, SAGE 2016.
Guffey, Elizabeth. Designing Disability: Symbols, Space, and Society. Bloomsbury, 2018.
Hamraie, Aimi. Building Access: Universal Design and the Politics of Disability. University of Minnesota, 2017. 
Hendren, Sara. What Can a Body Do? How We Meet the Built World. Riverhead Books, 2020. 
Katherine Ott, David Serlin, and Stephen Mihm, eds. Artificial Parts, Practical Lives: Modern Histories of Prosthetics. NYU, 2002
Williamson, Bess and Elizabeth Guffey, eds. Making Disability Modern: Design Histories. Bloomsbury, 2020.