Designing disability: symbols, space, and society

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Notes

1 Guffey, like some other authors, associates the term ‘misfit’ with the work of Rosemarie Garland-Thomson. While Garland-Thomson does refer to the term, and develop aspects of it, I would like to direct readers’ attention to the work of Kevin Lynch, a wonderful academic who wrote major texts about design and the environment and who coined the notion of ‘misfit’ as far back as the 1950s. For readers interested in the notions of ‘misfit’ and ‘misfitting’, particularly in relation to embodiment and design, then a careful reading of the writings of Kevin Lynch is recommended (see Lynch 1960, 1981).