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DESCRIPTION:Bess Williamson will be coming to speak at the Mr. and Mrs.\nRa
 ymond J. Horowitz Foundation Seminar in New York and American Material\nCu
 lture on Tuesday\, March 18\, 2014. Her talk is entitled “Problems in Desi
 gn\nHistory Research: The Body\, Disability\, and Modern Industrial Design
 .”In her talk at the BGC\, Williamson will discuss her research on bodies 
 that are hard to find in design history: those of the disabled\, ill\, and
  elderly. Disability is a little-discussed topic in the history of design\
 , particularly given the propensity of Modernism toward idealized\, engine
 ered forms rather than aberrance or idiosyncrasy. Looking at (and for) bod
 ies left out of mainstream design provides an opportunity to interrogate d
 esign research\, and ask: where do we look for difficult-to-find subjects 
 in the history of design? What discourses can guide an exploration of mode
 rn and contemporary design from the perspective of the body—particularly w
 hen design does not function well? What connections can be made between th
 ese invisible subjects and other concerns left out of design discourse?\n
 \nBess Williamson is an Assistant Professor at the School of the Art Insti
 tute of Chicago\, where she teaches courses in design history and theory. 
 She received her PhD in American History from the University of Delaware\,
  and holds a Masters in the History of Design and Decorative Arts from Par
 sons The New School for Design/Cooper-Hewitt\, National Design Museum. Her
  current book project\, Designing an Accessible America\, traces the histo
 ry of design responses to disability rights from 1945 to recent times. Her
  writing has appeared in Winterthur Portfolio and American Studies\, with 
 reviews in Design and Culture and Design Issues.
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SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: Problems in Design History Research: The Body
 \, Disability\, and Modern Industrial Design
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