Branding and Designing Disability

Design and branding have immense power to create, label and affix value. This innovative book argues that disability as a category is created by the way it is designed; the disabled are branded as in need of specialized, segregated services, products, policies and even rights. They can, therefore, be rebranded.

'This book completely rethinks the idea of disability in new and innovative ways by starting with the concept of disability as design. The authors ask us not how to critique "normal" but how we could redesign it. A groundbreaking analysis that makes it impossible to think about disability as we have in the past.' - Lennard J. Davis, University of Illinois, USA

Elizabeth DePoy is Professor of Interdisciplinary Disability Studies at the University of Maine, USA.

Stephen Gilson is Professor of Interdisciplinary Disability Studies at the University of Maine, USA.