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Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR and LitHub

A fascinating and provocative new way of looking at the things we use and the spaces we inhabit, and a call to imagine a better-designed world for us all.

Furniture and tools, kitchens and campuses and city streets-nearly everything human beings make and use is assistive technology, meant to bridge the gap between body and world. Yet unless, or until, a misfit between our own body and the world is acute enough to be understood as disability, we may never stop to consider-or reconsider-the hidden assumptions on which our everyday environment is built.

In a series of vivid stories drawn from the lived experience of disability and the ideas and innovations that have emerged from it-from cyborg arms to customizable cardboard chairs to deaf architecture-Sara Hendren invites us to rethink the things and settings we live with. What might assistance based on the body's stunning capacity for adaptation-rather than a rigid insistence on "normalcy"-look like? Can we foster interdependent, not just independent, living? How do we creativelyengineer public spaces that allow us all to navigate our common terrain? By rendering familiar objects and environments newly strange and wondrous, What Can a Body Do? helps us imagine a future that will better meet the extraordinary range of our collective needs and desires.

• Author's Notep. xi
• Introduction: Who Is the Built World Built For?p. 1
• A lectern for a Little Person and a laboratory with surprises. Where is disability? The universally assisted body.
• Limb.p. 33
• Cyborg arms vs. zip ties: Finding the body's infinite adaptability and replacing the things that matter.
• Chair.p. 65
• From "do-it-yourself murder" to cardboard furniture: Is a better world designed one-for-all, or all-for-one?
• Room.p. 95
• DeafSpace, a hospital dorm, and design that anticipates life's hardest choices. Rethinking "independent living."
• Street.p. 131
• Geography and desire lines: Atypical minds and bodies navigate the landscape. Making space truly common.
• Clock.p. 161
• Life on crip time. When the clock is the keeper of our days, what pace of life is fast enough?
• Epilogue: Making Assistance Visible.p. 197
• Acknowledgmentsp. 207
• Notesp. 211
• Bibliographyp. 223