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Sara Hendren
Sara Hendren is an artist, design researcher, writer and professor at Northeastern University. Her book What Can a Body Do? How We Meet the Built World (Riverhead Books, 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 and won the 2021 Science in Society Journalism book prize. Her art and design works have been exhibited on the White House lawn under the Obama presidency, at the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Seoul Museum of Art, the Vitra Design Museum, and many others, and her work is held in the permanent collections at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and the Cooper Hewitt. She has been an NEH Public Scholar and a fellow at New America, and her commentary and criticism have been published in Harper’s Magazine, Art in America, the New York Times, the Washington Post and elsewhere.
Contact: Northeastern University College of Arts, Media and Design (CAMD), Ryder Hall 102, Boston, MA 02115, USA.