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Jessie Buckle on What Can a Body Do? How We Meet the Built World
13 November, 2024
Sara Hendren provides a series of vivid stories drawn from the lived experience of disability and the ideologies and innovations that have emerged from it. ‘What Can a Body Do?’ is a phrase initially coined by philosopher and gender theorist Judith Butler in conversation with Sunaura Taylor in The Examined Life, a documentary which has encouraged an analysis, to bridge the gap between body, mind, and architecture. Hendren advocates that everyone is unique within their disability and that individual experiences should not be collated into a ‘[one]-dimensional we’. Rather than insisting on adjustment of architectural forms to accommodate a greater diversity of impairments, Hendren, she offers new ways to conceive architecture – to model, design, describe, represent, theorise, and write histories about it.