The view most accepted by disability theorists and activists defines disability as a purely social category. The common medical understanding of disability, in contrast, creates a very negative and restrictive view—one which supports that a disabled individual has a bodily defect that must be cured or eliminated in order for them to achieve full capacity and personhood.
     In essence, I believe the medicalized look of assistive technologies and prosthetics are limiting social understanding and the disabled individual’s ability to feel their self worth. As a project, I altered the presently trendy Kartell Louis Ghost Chair into a wheelchair. Although this model is not the most practical looking, I think it makes a statement and proclaims a hope that disability can lose a lot of its associated stigmas if designers work to critically create assistive devices that are not only cool, but functional.