Printing a New Story: Self-representation, Disability, and Digital Fabrication
This essay presents an account of an AHRC Connected Communities Innovation project which used creative writing techniques as a process for generating personally meaningful digitally-fabricated objects, probing the potential of making practices to catalyse cultural change with and for disabled people...
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University of Groningen Press
2019-05-01
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| description | This essay presents an account of an AHRC Connected Communities Innovation project which used creative writing techniques as a process for generating personally meaningful digitally-fabricated objects, probing the potential of making practices to catalyse cultural change with and for disabled people. This account explores the processes and products of experimental approaches to digital fabrication, speculating that they may be understood as a kind of poetic language, capable of generating counter-hegemonic narratives, which may be read as acts of self-representation. Digital fabrication’s literal/metaphorical qualities are read through the lens of ‘complex embodiment’, proposing that this technology may be particularly suited to inclusive auto/biographical expression, empowering disabled people to print new stories for and about themselves. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-71079cc36c88483ebbb10272eb39014b2022-12-21T23:52:44ZengUniversity of Groningen PressEuropean Journal of Life Writing2211-243X2019-05-018DM171DM19610.21827/ejlw.8.3555535555Printing a New Story: Self-representation, Disability, and Digital FabricationUrsula Hurley0The University of SalfordThis essay presents an account of an AHRC Connected Communities Innovation project which used creative writing techniques as a process for generating personally meaningful digitally-fabricated objects, probing the potential of making practices to catalyse cultural change with and for disabled people. This account explores the processes and products of experimental approaches to digital fabrication, speculating that they may be understood as a kind of poetic language, capable of generating counter-hegemonic narratives, which may be read as acts of self-representation. Digital fabrication’s literal/metaphorical qualities are read through the lens of ‘complex embodiment’, proposing that this technology may be particularly suited to inclusive auto/biographical expression, empowering disabled people to print new stories for and about themselves.https://ejlw.eu/article/view/35555digital fabricationdisabilitycomplex embodimentcounter-hegemonic narrativespoetic practice |
| spellingShingle | Ursula Hurley Printing a New Story: Self-representation, Disability, and Digital Fabrication European Journal of Life Writing digital fabrication disability complex embodiment counter-hegemonic narratives poetic practice |
| title | Printing a New Story: Self-representation, Disability, and Digital Fabrication |
| title_full | Printing a New Story: Self-representation, Disability, and Digital Fabrication |
| title_fullStr | Printing a New Story: Self-representation, Disability, and Digital Fabrication |
| title_full_unstemmed | Printing a New Story: Self-representation, Disability, and Digital Fabrication |
| title_short | Printing a New Story: Self-representation, Disability, and Digital Fabrication |
| title_sort | printing a new story self representation disability and digital fabrication |
| topic | digital fabrication disability complex embodiment counter-hegemonic narratives poetic practice |
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