About Abler & Sara Hendren

Abler is a think-space about art, design and adaptive technologies. Here you’ll find links to artwork that may be thought of as “adaptive” in both explicit and implicit ways: work that uses tools, instruments, proxies, or other extensive machinery to augment the way we live. I’m interested in adaptation for practical purposes—creating greater options for the literal challenges that disabilities present. I’m also interested in adaptation in a metaphorical or speculative sense: tools, real or imagined, that make visible the less-apparent, but no less human, challenges we encounter.

In its broadest sense, of course, a theme of “adaptation” could encompass nearly anything. But I hope that this gathering will be both focused and generative, pointing toward more questions, new areas of research, and yet-to-be-imagined ways of creating communities that thrive: how we define norms and differences, how we add to or alter our daily experiences, whether and how we choose to enhance or eliminate aspects of life as we now know it.

Abler also houses my recent and ongoing projects: studio-based, collaborative, public, and otherwise. I’m in the Art, Design, and the Public Domain program at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. I’d love to hear from you—

Sara Hendren, Cambridge, Mass.
contact: sarahendren at gmail

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