Thread by @MarcelHarmon1

Thoroughly enjoyed this week’s @inquiringshow podcast consisting of @indrevis’s interview of Sara Hendrin regarding her new book: What Can a Body Do?: How We Meet the Built World. I love it when the tables are flipped relative to our views of the... 1/

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built environment, particularly when that flipping provides a more comprehensive & inclusive focus on people. This idea isn’t new - that people are disabled not because of their bodies or brains but because of the physical environment we’ve created. But Hendrin provides... 2/

an insightful, inspiring, & hopeful take on it.

As they covered sign language in relation to the built environment, I couldn’t help but wonder how reopening schools would be impacted if we all generally knew sign language. Signing during... 3/

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instruction/discussion would reduce the quantity of virus expelled (speaking + breathing produces more virus particles than just breathing). Nor would their be audio intelligibility issues (or additional teacher voice strain) from a) mask wearing,... 4/

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b) exterior noise from open windows, c) additional mechanical system noise from ramped up ventilation, d) noise generated by portable air cleaners, &/or e) the removal of carpets (to avoid re-aerosolizing virus particles via things like foot traffic). 5/

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I also liked the term “misfit”; it makes me think of the term “evolutionary mismatch.” In both cases we’re talking about a misalignment of the built environment’s physical/social parameters w/ the physical &/or mental capabilities/properties of some individuals. 6/

In the case of a misfit, the misalignment is driven by inadequately accounting for non-neurotypical or non-physical typical characteristics of individuals. In the case of evolutionary mismatch the misalignment is driven by inadequately accounting for physiological,... 7/

psychological, and/or social/cultural needs shaped by our evolutionary history. 8/