Poland
Teresa Żółkowska
Disability, Issue 32 (2018), 2018, pp. 27 - 37
https://doi.org/10.4467/25439561.NP.18.057.10457The following article presents core assumptions of developing since 80’ interdisciplinary perspective, that re-evaluate humanistic tradition and takes an attempt to capture it into the modern experiences. Modern posthumanism, do not stem as a scientific trend, yet nowadays we may describe it as many posthumanisms, which undergone many modifications. Very often we differentiate two main steams that deal with disability analysis. The first one, is analytical posthumanism, connected with studies, science and technology. The second stream is a critical posthumanism, that stem from anyhumanistic traditions of philosophical subjectivity.
Teresa Żółkowska
Disability, Issue 21 (2016), 2016, pp. 66 - 77
Universal designing is designing the sphere, in which everyone is equal no matter what is one sex, age, height, the level of ability, and the changes that are displayed in the lifespan (because of the illness or aging). It is a way of designing, based on the idealistic assumptions, which not always are displayed in practice. The following article is an attempt to answer the following questions: is it possible to design universally does is it only appear in the sphere of ideas and concepts? Is the process of universalisation of everyday life projects, which covers „normal” products and services possible and is it adequate to complex human functioning? How is it possible to come from idealistic assumptions to practice of designing that provide the disabled chances for equal, independent from functioning in the environment.