Disability by Design
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Keywords
identity, design, branding, disability
Abstract
Given the primacy of global economics and marketing mind-sets, this article interrogates disability as a phenomenon of design and branding. We begin by briefly reviewing relevant design and branding concepts, proceed to apply them to the creation of a disability identity and set of responses, and then demonstrate the power of design and branding as subversive or facilitative of advancing transformative global inclusion and human rights.
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Elizabeth DePoy, Professor of Interdisciplinary Disability Studies, Center for Community Inclusion and Disability Studies, and Social Work, University of Maine
Elizabeth DePoy, Ph.D., is Professor of Interdisciplinary Disability Studies at the Center for Community Inclusion and Disability Studies, and Social Work at the University of Maine, where she teaches research and evaluation methods and disability studies from a legitimacy perspective. Her research focuses on access, identity as design, and human rights.
Stephen Gilson, Coordinator and Professor of Interdisciplinary Disability Studies, Center for Community Inclusion and Disability Studies, and Social Work, University of Maine
Stephen Gilson, Ph.D., is Coordinator and Professor of Interdisciplinary Disability Studies at the Center for Community Inclusion and Disability Studies, and Social Work at the University of Maine, where he teaches disability as diversity, health and disability/health policy, and human behavior from a legitimacy perspective.