We engineer the world, and then it engineers us right back. Our buildings, our streets, and our cities are built with a vision of what it means to be human — and they build us into that image. But what about the humans that don’t fit our physical ideal?

Octet is inviting Sara Hendren, Associate Professor of Art + Design and Architecture at Northeastern University, to consider the interactions between disability, society, and the physical world.

Hendren holds an MDes from the Harvard GSD and an MA in Cultural and Intellectual History from UCLA. She’s the author of What Can A Body Do?