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    Design and Architecture

    Opulent Mobility

    How you ever gone to a medical devices store and been struck by just how grim and clinical the products look?

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    By Frances Anderton • Sep 8, 2015 • 1 min read

    How you ever gone to a medical devices store and been struck by just how grim and clinical the products look?

    That was how artist A. Laura Brody felt when she was thrown into the world of assisted mobility. Her belief that dependency shouldn’t mean loss of beauty has lead to ‘Opulent Mobility,’ an exhibition of art, designs and inventions dealing with disability and mobility, on at CSUN’s West Gallery.

    Laura Brody is co-curator and she told DnA all about her work in “pimping out wheelchairs and walkers.”

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    Spotlight on Frank Gehry and Eli Broad; Opulent Mobility; Berlin Palace
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      Frances Anderton

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    The full episode

    3 of 3
    Spotlight on Frank Gehry and Eli Broad; Opulent Mobility; Berlin Palace
    1. 0:00Spotlight on Frank Gehry and Eli Broad
    2. 10:28Berlin's City Palace
    3. 21:28Opulent MobilityYou’re reading this
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