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  — a digital archive of low-tech prosthetics called Engineering at Home — a four-year effort to bring more arts and humanities to higher-ed STEM called Sketch Model: artists’ residencies, student fello...

• engineering at home | sara hendren

  engineering Engineering at Home is an online design archive of adaptations built by, with, and for Cindy, who became a quadruple amputee late in life. It’s also a manifesto about what counts as engine...

• ways you could remake an engineering school | sara hendren

  ways you could remake an engineering school — Everyone gets a double major: engineering and history. That’s it. That’s all we offer. There are some required history survey courses that you take in a s...

• the tent and the estuary | sara hendren

  You work in inclusive design? Ah yes, ok, you say, so — what you inclusive designers want is a world built in ways that connect more people to the social and political goods of the polis. You want us...

• in praise of re-reading | sara hendren

  in praise of re-reading My friend Lisa Brawley, a longtime professor and now dean at Vassar, told me she often bases her final course assignments around re-reading a text, as opposed to introducing a ...

• outdoors, specifically | sara hendren

  outdoors, specifically In July, I went to Laity Lodge in the hill country of Texas—an incredibly raw and beautiful landscape—and twice I hiked to a swimming hole with my friend Claire. It was sublime:...