EP 115: Designing the Built World for our Bodies | Sara Hendren

In this episode, we talk about what a body can do and how we meet
the built world. Sara Hendren is an artist, design researcher,
writer, professor at Olin College of Engineering, and the creator
and host of the Sketch Model podcast. She is the author of What Can
A Body Do? How We Meet the Built World, published by
Riverhead/Penguin Random House. It was chosen as a Best Book of the
Year by NPR and won the Science in Society Journalism book prize.
Sara is a humanist in tech. Her work of 2010-2020 includes
collaborative public art, social design, and writing that reframes
the human body and technology. Her work has been exhibited on the
White House lawn under the Obama administration, at the Victoria
& Albert Museum, the DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, The Vitra
Design Museum, the Seoul Museum of Art, among other venues, and is
held in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art and
the Cooper Hewitt Museum. She has been a National Fellow at the New
America think tank, and her work has been supported by an NEH
Public Scholar grant, residencies at Yaddo and the Carey Institute
for Global Good, and an Artist Fellowship from the Massachusetts
Cultural Council. At Olin, she was also the Principal Investigator
on a four-year initiative to bring more arts experiences to
engineering students and faculty, supported by the Mellon
Foundation. Episode mentions and links: https://sarahendren.com/
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