Cyborg Arms and Robot Caregivers: Design For an Interdependent Future

Watson Fine Arts - Ellison Lecture Hall Norton, MA

Join us for the keynote address for the Designing for a Difference series presented by Sara Hendren. Sara is a humanist in tech—an artist, design researcher, writer, and professor at Olin College of Engineering.

Designing Motherhood: Curating Inside and Outside of Institutions

Watson Fine Arts - Weber Theatre Norton, MA, United States

Join Michelle Millar Fisher, co-founder of Designing Motherhood, to learn about a unique constellation of contemporary artists and designers whose work helps us ponder the political, economic, and social implications of how we all relate to reproduction.

Radical Visibility: A Queercrip Dress Reform Movement

Watson Fine Arts - Ellison Lecture Hall Norton, MA

Join multidisciplinary artist Sky Cubacub, who created Rebirth Garments in 2014. Rebirth Garment’s mission is to create gender non-conforming wearables and accessories for people on the full spectrum of gender, size and ability.

Critical Access Studies

Online

Aimi Hamraie will discuss some of the insights of Critical Access Studies that can better inform the theory and practice of accessible design.

An Evening with Artist Finnegan Shannon

Watson Fine Arts - Ellison Lecture Hall Norton, MA

Finnegan Shannon is a multidisciplinary artist whose work experiments with access and ableist assumptions.

A Bench for My Favorite Book

Wallace Library - Reference Reading Room

Join us to celebrate A Bench for My Favorite Book (2024), an art installation created by Finnegan Shannon in collaboration with Wheaton students.