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Alternative Futures: Questioning Design Standards
Published in Schneiderman, Deborah, Anca I. Lasc, and Karin Tehve, eds. Appropriated Interiors. New York: Routledge, 2022.
Since antiquity, Western architects have presumed that the user of the designed environment is a prototypical body, one who is by default white, able-bodied, cisgender, heterosexual and male. Leonardo da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man and Le Corbusier’s Modulor Man are only two examples of how architects have designed buildings based on the proportions of an “ideal” male body, one that people could aspire to but only approximate. However, by the turn of the 20th century, the notion of the “ideal” body that had formed the basis of the Western architectural tradition since the Renaissance gave way to a new conception: the “normal” or “average” body, one whose anatomical characteristics performing a range of tasks could be studied and measured using two techniques adopted by architects and designers—anthropometry and ergonomics.
These concepts were applied by capitalists to maximize workplace efficiency and by adherents of suspect ideologies like eugenics, a movement that emerged in Europe and the United States in the early decades of the 20th century dedicated to “scientific racism”—improving the human race by
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ATHENS, Greece >> The Newsletter on Chair Barack Obama’s final overseas tour though president (all times local):
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Obama Visiting in Athens the Acropolis and Acropolis Museum
Have you already seen the photos of Obama visiting in Athens the Acropolis and Acropolis Museum? On Wednesday, November 16, U.S. President Barack Obama visited two of the most famous attractions in Greece, the Acropolis monument as well as the Acropolis museum.
President Obama entered the Acropolis citadel through the Propylaea and walked along the Parthenon, the temple which was dedicated to the goddess Athena, the patron god of the city of Athens. The 5th Century B.C. Parthenon temple was built by Ictinus and is surrounded these days by scaffolding. From the Acropolis hilltop, President Obama enjoyed an amazing view of the Greek capital. The whole site was closed for his visit.
Greece’s government has hailed Obama’s visit, as it is the first official visit of a sitting U.S. president since 1999, when Bill Clinton visited Greece.
Although the President traveled solo, without Michelle Obama or his family, he visited two of the top family attractions in Athens. He got so impressed that he promised he will come back soon… this time with his family and for much needed vacations!
Right after the tours he gave a speech where he strongly supported the value of democracy and the significance o