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Transdisciplinarity in Disability, Art and Design
  • ISSN: 1757-1936
  • E-ISSN: 1757-1944

Abstract

Psychology and cognition scholar Howard Gardner’s concept of ‘fruitful asynchrony’ provides the foundation for the author to understand her own interdisciplinary work between critical design, engineering and disability studies. The author introduces her own framework of ‘disposition, language, house’ as a further heuristic to understand the interdisciplinary nature of design theory and practice.

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