Window Shopping with Helen Keller Book Talk

Wednesday, April 30th
At 12:30pm
20 Cooper Square, 4th Floor Flex Space

David Serlin in conversation with Mara Mills and Sophie Gonick. Moderated by Andrew Ross.
Window Shopping with Helen Keller recovers a series of influential moments when architects and designers engaged the embodied experiences of people with disabilities. David Serlin reveals how people with sensory and physical impairments navigated urban spaces and helped to shape modern culture. Through four case studies – the lives of Joseph Merrick (aka “The Elephant Man”) and Helen Keller, the architectural and design projects of the Works Progress Administration, and Chicago architect Stanley Tigerman’s design for the Illinois Regional Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped – Serlin offers a new history of modernity’s entanglements with disability.

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