Single Handed
October 2023
A conversation with parents and
child about growing up disabled.
child about growing up disabled.
The publication offers advice, reassurance, and information on what it’s really like to live with disability,
in order to help support parents on their journey to understanding disability by covering all aspects of upper limb difference, from prosthetics to representation. Single Handed aims to challenge perceptions on disability, by sharing disabled perspectives in a positive way. Although there are times when disability can
create negative interactions, disability itself is not
a negative thing.
With a playful, illustrative, collage approach and the
use of bright risograph printing, the publication fosters an inclusive, positive feeling. It aims to challenge the perspective around disability, and reassure parents that disability is not a negative thing for their child, whilst helping boost the self-worth of disabled people.
Project Abstract
Single Handed is a practice-led project which investigates how scrapbook-publications can be used
to communicate disabled perspectives. Situated in the context of disability culture and disability arts, where disability is used to describe barriers in society for
people with impairments, Single Handed explores
how scrapbooking techniques can be used to create imagery that shares disabled experiences. I utilise
my knowledge and experiences as a disabled person
through an autoethnographic approach to address
and communicate my story through image-making techniques. This scrapbook-publication aims provide non-disabled people with a better understanding
of what it means to be disabled.
Best Design Awards Winner 2024
AUT Head of School Award 2023
Single Handed Exegesis
Mia Freeman Design