Rice Architecture Hosts Historian Bess Williamson for Lecture on Design and Disability

The Rice University School of Architecture recently welcomed Bess Williamson, a historian of design and material culture at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, for a lecture focused on the history of activism and creative design practices that have impacted the experience of people with disabilities. Read the recent article from Rice News covering her lecture. The school also welcomed her into the classroom. She visited the seminar titled "Body-Plus: Architecture, Design, and Disability," taught by Professor Dawn Finely, where students learn about the power of design through disability.