In the Wake of Universal Design: Mapping the Terrain

Elizabeth Guffey works at the intersection of art, design, and disability studies. Her book Designing Disability: Symbols, Space and Society (Bloomsbury, 2017) is a critical study of the International Symbol of Access or “wheelchair symbol.” With Bess Williamson, she is co-editor of Making Disability Modern (Bloomsbury, 2020). Guffey has published a number of books and scholarly articles on design history, criticism, and theory. She is also Founding Editor of the academic journal Design and Culture.