Professor Christopher R. Smit (Calvin College, USA)
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Consider two wheelchairs in Washington, DC—one well-known, and one forgotten. The former belonged to FDR and is now memorialized in bronze with a statue of its user forever attached to the seat. The other sits in the climate-controlled basement of the Smithsonian. Its owner was Ed Roberts, the deceased father of the Disability Culture Movement, and it was dropped off at the museum with a note that argued that the chair has an important story to tell. Christopher R. Smit understands...
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Consider two wheelchairs in Washington, D...
