Sara Hendren Artist Talk: Investigating Normal - Adaptive and Assistive Technologies

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Sara Hendren is returning to SFPC! This time, her talk will focus on Investigating Normal: Adaptive and Assistive Technologies Sara Hendren is an artist, design researcher, and writer in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She makes material and digital artworks, writes, and lectures on adaptive and assistive technologies, prosthetics, inclusive design, accessible architecture, and related ideas. Her work has been exhibited in the US and abroad and is held in the permanent collection at MOMA (NYC), and her writing and design work have appeared in the Boston Globe, The Atlantic Tech, FastCo Design, and on National Public Radio (US), among others. She teaches socially-engaged design practices, adaptive + assistive technologies, and disability studies for engineers-in-training at Olin College. She writes and edits Abler, a syndicated column sometimes also on Gizmodo.