Research Guides: What Can a Body Do? (First Year Read, 2024): ROOM: Accessible Living Space

Room

Image: room by Erik Arndt from Noun Project (CC BY 3.0)

Gallaudet University DeafSpace

“Gallaudet’s architecture emphasizes the particular capacities and assets of deafness, an utter reversal of even the most generous and well-meaning interpretation of ‘inclusion.’”
(What Can a Body Do?, p. 99)

DeafSpace @ Gaulladet University
The DeafSpace project (DSP) developed the DeafSpace Guidelines, a catalog of over one hundred and fifty distinct DeafSpace architectural design elements that address the five major touch points between deaf experiences and the built environment: Sensory Reach, Space and Proximity, Mobility and Proximity, Light and Color and Acoustics

Hansel Bauman & Deaf Architecture

Hansel Baumann
DeafSpace's "finder" and "keeper".
The Rise of Deaf Architecture
Christian Font & Michael Davis, Washington Post, September 12, 2019.

Starbucks Signing Store

Starbucks Opens First Sign Language Store For Deaf and Hearing Impaired Customers (Audacy, 2018; via YouTube)

Eight things to know about the new Starbucks Signing Store

Cowell Memorial Hospital & The Cowell Hospital Residence Program

Image source: National Park Service

Cowell Memorial Hospital: National Register of Historic Places
From its opening in 1930, Cowell Memorial Hospital had a reputation for excellence and innovation in student health care and, when needed, care for medical emergencies in the community. In 1962, the new north wing to Cowell Memorial Hospital became the campus home of Edward V. Roberts, and soon the setting of the Cowell Residence Program for disabled students at the University of California, Berkeley, and the birthplace of the Independent Living Movement.
Cowell Hospital Residence Program
From the Online Archive of California, part of the Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement Oral History Series. Features interviews with key administrators and rehabilitation counselors in the Cowell Residence Program.

Cowell Memorial Hospital Historical Marker

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Site of the Ernest V. Cowell Memorial Hospital 1930-1993
Built for the Student Health Service
Original location of the Physically Disabled Students Residence Program 1962-1975

Image Source: Historical Marker Database

Steve Saling

“Until medicine proves otherwise, technology is the answer.”
(S. Saling, quoted in What Can a Body Do?, p. 123)

What Can a Body Do? (First Year Read, 2024)

Room

Image: room by Erik Arndt from Noun Project (CC BY 3.0)

Gallaudet University DeafSpace

Hansel Bauman & Deaf Architecture

Starbucks Signing Store

Starbucks Opens First Sign Language Store For Deaf and Hearing Impaired Customers (Audacy, 2018; via YouTube)

Cowell Memorial Hospital & The Cowell Hospital Residence Program

Image source: National Park Service

Image Source: Historical Marker Database

Steve Saling

Leonard Florence Center for Living (via YouTube)

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