[Air-L] Access as Responsible Technology - JUST AI Event, 21 April 3 pm BST

[Alison Powell]

The JUST AI network 
<https://www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/just-ai/>presents a conversation 
with Sara Hendren, author of What Can a Body Do?: How We Meet the Built 
World(2020, Penguin, Random House), and Sarah Drinkwater, Director of 
Responsible Technology at the Omidyar Network, to explore ‘access’, with 
a focus on disability-led access, as a way to rethink the meaning and 
potential of responsible technology.

Please join us!

Date: Wednesday, 21 April 2021

Time: 3:00pm-4:00pm BST

Register here: 
https://www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/event/access-responsible-technology/

This conversation is chaired by Louise Hickman (JUST AI) and introduced 
by Alexa Hagerty (University of Cambridge).


      About the speakers:

Sara Hendren is an artist, design researcher, writer, and professor at 
Olin College of Engineering. She is the author of What Can A Body Do? 
How We Meet the Built World 
<https://www.amazon.co.uk/What-Can-Body-Do-Built-ebook/dp/B082H35TV9>, a 
book which considers the lived experience of disability and the ideas 
and innovations that emerge from disability-led design.


Sara’s work includes collaborative public art, social design, and 
writing that engages the human body and technology, much of it around 
the condition of disability. Her work has been widely exhibited and is 
held in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the 
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York; her writing and 
design have been featured on NPR, in Fast Company, and in the New York 
Times.


Sarah Drinkwater coleads Omidyar Network's Responsible Technology team, 
pushing for a tech ecosystem that's equitable as well as innovative. 
Previously, she built community products at Google and led Google's 
London space for early-stage founders working to democratise access to 
entrepreneurship. Through Atomico's angel program, she invests in 
community-driven solutions.


As part of this conversation, participants will engage with Hendren’s 
new book, What a Body Can Do?: How we Meet the Built World 
<https://www.amazon.co.uk/What-Can-Body-Do-Built-ebook/dp/B082H35TV9>(2020, 
Penguin, Random House), to consider the lived experience of disability 
and the ideas and innovations that emerge from disability-led design. 
Hendren’s work turns our attention to a social model of disability, in 
which ‘the interaction between the conditions of the body and the shapes 
of the world that makes disability into a lived experience, and 
therefore a matter not only for individuals but also for societies.’

-- 
Dr Alison Powell
Associate Professor, Director of MSc in Data & Society
Department of Media and Communications
London School of Economics and Political Science

Director: JUST-AI Network on Data and AI Ethics
Ada Lovelace Institute
Twitter: @a_b_powell