Sara Hendren: Embodiment and the Designed World

Artist, design researcher, and writer Sara Hendren sits down with host Ilya Vidrin to discuss embodiment and the designed world. 

 

Sara Hendren is an Associate Professor in Art + Design with a joint appointment in the School of Architecture at Northeastern University. Her book What Can A Body Do? How We Meet the Built World (Riverhead/Penguin Random House, 2020) explores the places where disability shows up in design at all scales: assistive technology, furniture, architecture, urban planning, and more. It was named one of the Best Books of 2020 by NPR, a finalist for the Massachusetts Book Award, and won the 2021 Science in Society Journalism book prize.