Global Universal Design EducatorsOnline News

Produced and distributed by ElaineOstroff, through contracts with the Center for Universal Design and theAdaptive Environments Center, in cooperation with the National Instituteon Disability and Rehabilitation Research.

Volume5 Number 2, December 2003 - January 2004

Contents

• Editor's Note
• News from theGlobal Network
• ASIA 
• ThreeNations Target One Design
• AUSTRALIA 
• Sustainable,Affordable and Universally Designed Home
• CANADA
• DisabilityStudies Inaugural Meeting
• UniversalDesign Studies Course via Virtual Classroom
• COSTA RICA 
• Policiesfor Accessibility in Wildlife Areas
• GERMANY
• StudentDesign - Visions for the Year 2050
• ITALY
• Workshopon Fire Safety & Disabilities Issues
• JAPAN
• NewInternational Association for Universal Design
• NETHERLANDS
• 2ndInternational Engineering and Product Design Education Conference
• SCANDINAVIA(NORDIC COUNTRIES)
• Era05 World Design Congress
• Form& Funktion (Nordic Design for All Magazine)
• UNITED KINGDOM 
• easyinfo.org
• OpenSpace: People Space
• UNITED STATES
• AccessSolutions for Multimedia in E-books
• AIAEducation Honor Awards Program
• AssistiveTechnology and Aging in Place Grants Competition
• ArchitectureFor Social Justice Award Winners
• CRiT57 Call for Submissions
• GoingBeyond the ADA
• Homeof the Future at 2004 International Builders Show
• HUDReleases Fair Housing Accessibility Study
• AModel for Accessibility, Volume 1
• SociallyResponsible Architecture
• Structuresfor Inclusion 4 Conference
• TransportationFacilities: Bus Stops, Terminals, and Transit Stations
• VisitabilityHighlighted in FOCUS
• WORLD
• DisabledPersons International World Summit
• W084- Building Comfortable Environments for All
• Global UniversalDesign Educator's Network e-mail list
• Calendar
• Adding yourinformation, questions to the Online News

EDITOR'SNOTE

To new subscribers, pleasenote that the Online News is now published bi-monthly. The web archivewill be updated within a week of the emailed version. The next issue, February- March will be published at the end of February. The Online News is alsolinked to the interactive Universal Design Education Online website, www.udeducation.orgwhere you can find more detailed Calls for Participation, archived Calendarlistings, and a Discussion Forum.

This issue has some immediatedeadlines, please note the following: The call for abstracts from the newCanadian Disability Studies Association and Universal Design Studies onlinecourse (Canada), the student design competition (Germany), and the Agingin Place Grants Competition (United States). We include them as they maybe annual events and are excellent resources. 

We include the winners ofthe first Architecture for Social Justice Awards, faculty from 11 US schoolsof architecture (United States). In this issue you’ll also find a widerange of conference opportunities including an International Symposiumon ICT Accessibility in the Asia-Pacific Region (Japan), Engineering andProduct Design Education (Netherlands), Era 05 World Design Congress (Scandinavia),Inclusive Outdoor Environments (United Kingdom), Structures for Inclusion,with a focus on reaching underserved populations needing design assistance(United States) and the Disabled Persons International World Summit (World).

Information accessibilityis addressed in two projects: ‘easyinfo.org’ is a new website that addressesthe challenge of making information easier for people with learning difficulties(United Kingdom) and the National Center for Accessible Media has beguna new multi-media project in e-books (United States). New (or less wellknown) media include a publication from the Center on Disability Studies,University of Hawaii, and a transportation video from the Center for UniversalDesign.

Note that the Calendar includesitems that are not detailed in this issue. Please send us your informationso that we can include it in the next issue that will be published in lateFebruary. 

Information from the OnlineNews may be freely copied and quoted as long as the individual author,and/or web site and this source are cited. NOTE: Previous issues of theOnline News are available online at the NEW Global Universal Design EducationNetwork website at: http://www.universaldesign.net.

NEWS FROM THE GLOBALNETWORK

ASIA

ThreeNations Target One Design

Source: Accessible Society E-Letter11/18/2003, http://www.accessiblesociety.org/topics/universaldesign/AsianUD.html
For more information: http://www.asahi.com/english/business/TKY200311080138.html

AUSTRALIA

Sustainable, affordable, and universalhousing are usually presented as separate issues but the Queensland Departmentof Housing integrates all three of these approaches in a unique and integrated‘Smart Housing’ policy. Queensland, a state in northeast Australia, promotesits mission to "Improving People's Lives Through Housing" with a varietyof practical strategies for consumers and developers of housing througha user-friendly website and display homes. Smart House display homes acrossthe state illustrate more socially, environmentally and economically sustainablehousing. The Minister for Public Works and Housing Robert Schwarten explained,‘The idea behind Smart Housing is to save owners thousands of dollars inenergy bills, maintenance and modifications in the future ... Through usingsimple, common sense design and building practices, this house is flexible,efficient, safe, secure and affordable. Smart Housing means incorporatingcertain features into houses at the design and construction stage. It mayonly cost a little extra at the time, but adding these features a few yearslater can cost up to three times more.’ The website defines the three elements:social sustainability - a Smart House has been designed with people inmind. It is safe, secure and universally designed; environmental sustainability- a Smart House is resource efficient in water, waste and energy; and economicsustainability - a Smart House is cost-efficient. 

For details, examples, guidelines andresources, see: http://www.housing.qld.gov.au/.

CANADA

DisabilityStudies Inaugural Meeting

Source: http://www.disabilityworld.org/09-10_03/news/cdsa.shtml
For more information: http://www.disabilitystudies.ca/eduproj.htm#call

UniversalDesign Studies Course via Virtual Classroom

Universal Design Studiesis an introductory course on the emerging philosophy of universal design.The distance learning approach to the course brings students from acrossall design disciplines together in a collaborative approach to studyingthis progressive approach to design. The Universal Design Studies coursehas been developed by Sheridan College in partnership with the Design Exchangeand Human Resources Development Canada (HRDC). The course will commencethe week of January 12, 2004, and will run for 14 weeks. The last day forregistration is Friday January 9, 2004. 

Course details can be foundat: http://www.sheridanc.on.ca/udc/content/udstudies.htm

COSTA RICA

Policiesfor Accessibility in Wildlife Areas

Sources: Accessible TransportationAround the World, June 2003 edition http://www.globalride-sf.org/jun2003news.htmland Disability World Issue no. Issue no. 17 January-March 2003. For thefull newsletter text see: http://www.disabilityworld.org/01-03_03/access/costarica.shtml

GERMANY

StudentDesign Competition - Visions for the Year 2050

ITALY

Workshopon Fire Safety & Disabilities Issues

For more information, please contact:Dr. Luigi Biocca, l.biocca@itc.cnr.itor Dr. Annalisa Morini, a.morini@itc.cnr.it
For the program overview, in Italian,see: http://www.urp.cnr.it/ente/manifestazioni/11novembre2003.doc

JAPAN

NewInternational Association for Universal Design

The organization was to beginoperation on November 28, 2003. For more information, see: http://www.iaud.net/en/news/index.html

NETHERLANDS

2ndInternational Engineering and Product Design Education Conference

Source: Design Research News, November2003 (archive of all issues at: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A0=design-research) 
For more details, see: http://www.io.tudelft.nl/iepde04/

SCANDINAVIA(Nordic Countries)

Era 05World Design Congress

For more information including a PowerPoint(.PPT) presentation: http://www.era05.com/

Form& Funktion (Nordic Design for All Magazine)

Form & Funktion is a Nordic magazine,distributed in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. The aim ofthe magazine is to inspire, motivate and promote the principle of societyfor all, including Design for All and accessibility in the private andthe public sector. Form & Funktion deals with issues concerning thebuilt environment, outdoor spaces, transport, IT, products and services,as well as political initiatives. Issue No. 2, Vol. 2, December 2003 providesa close look at accessibility issues in Iceland as well as presenting anumber of products, both the kind that are user-friendly to most peopleand the kind that are annoying to all of us.

For an English version, see: http://www.dcft.dk/index.asp?pid=2960(there is also a Danish version and a joint Danish/English PDF version)

UNITED KINGDOM

easyinfo.org

Source: http://www.equalopportunity.on.ca/eng_g/subject/index.asp?action=search_7&file_id=25286
For more info: http://www.easyinfo.org.uk/

OPEN SPACE:PEOPLE SPACE

OPEN SPACE: PEOPLE SPACE: An InternationalConference on Inclusive Environments will be held on October 27-29, 2004.OPENspace: the research centre for inclusive access to outdoor environments,is hosting this three-day conference in Edinburgh to review recent researchand debate current issues surrounding good design for open space and socialinclusion, spaces and places for the 21st century. The program will includecontributions from an international array of experts covering the majorthemes of the conference: children and young people; disability and socialinclusion; health and restorative environments and tourism and leisure.

Website: www.openspace.eca.ac.uk.

UNITEDSTATES

AIAEducation Honor Awards Program

Details at: http://www.aia.org/education/04_edhonorsaward.asp

AccessSolutions for Multimedia in E-books

The Boston-based National Center forAccessible Media (NCAM) at the Center for Public Broadcasting, WGBH hasbeen awarded a three-year grant from the U.S. Department of Education.‘Beyond the Text’ will study ways to make multimedia (images, audio andvideo) used in electronic book formats (e-books) accessible to people whoare deaf, hard of hearing, blind or visually impaired. E-books offer onlineand portable access to traditional print media - fiction, nonfiction, textbooks,professional journals and other content- via personal computer, laptop,library systems or personal digital assistants (PDAs).  Accessiblee-books promise learners who are blind or deaf equal access to trade, textor scholarly books, a major leap forward in leveling the playing fieldfor people with disabilities at home, at work and at school. For more information:http://ncam.wgbh.org/ebooks

Architecturefor Social Justice Award Winners

The Adaptive Environments Architecturefor Social Justice Awards Program: Partnerships in Teaching involved ajury of senior faculty in architecture and other design leaders in theaward of stipends to faculty from 11 US schools of architecture for theirdesign studios in the 2003-2004 academic year. The selected faculty submittedproposals that addressed issues of social justice - both for students aswell as users of the built environment. The studio descriptions can beseen at www.udeducation.org, in the Teach section in ‘Architecture forSocial Justice.’ The program is funded in part by a grant from the NationalEndowment for the Arts. The faculty are: 

Hansy Better, Assistant Professor,Rhode Island School of Design; Lynne Dearborn, Assistant Professor, Schoolof Architecture, University of Illinois, Champaign Urbana and Jason Lockhart,Assistant Professor, Southern University School of Architecture; KeithDiaz Moore, Ph.D, Assistant Professor, Interdisciplinary Design Institute,Washington State University; Michael Gamble, Assistant Professor and JudeLeblanc, Associate Professor, College of Architecture, Georgia Instituteof Technology; Jose Gamez, Ph.D, Assistant Professor, College of Architecture,University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Joongsub Kim, Ph.D, AssistantProfessor, College of Architecture & Design, Lawrence TechnologicalUniversity; Karen King, Lecturer III and Geoffrey Adams, Assistant Professor,School of Architecture and Planning, University of New Mexico; Brian Lonsway,Assistant. Professor; Director of Informatics and Architecture, Schoolof Architecture, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Christopher Monson,Assistant Professor, College of Architecture, Mississippi State Universityand Mardelle Shepley, Ph.D, Professor, Texas A&M University, Collegeof Architecture.

For more details on the award background:www.adaptiveenvironments.org/accessdesign/faculty_award.php

AssistiveTechnology and Aging in Place Grants Competition

The deadline is January 9th 2004 toapply for small grant awards to support the Assistive Technology and Agingin Place (ATAP) demonstration program. ATAP was created to help develop,identify, and promote the use of innovative assistive technologies thatsupport independence and aging in place sponsored by The NAHB ResearchCenters National Center for Seniors Housing Research (NCSHR), in cooperationwith the Administration on Aging. 

Details at: http://www.nahbrc.org/Docs/MainNav/Seniors/4082_RFP_Final.pdf

CRiT57 Call for Submissions

CRiT (the journal of the American Instituteof Architecture Students (AIAS)) is seeking submissions for issue 57: CHRYSALIS.Innovative studio articles, project profiles, commentary, images and interviewswith educators and practitioners are requested. The Call states, ‘Studiois a cocoon, an isolation chamber where students metamorphose into designersand architects. A chrysalis. Studio is a privileged temporal space wherecritics help students establish personal aesthetics and creative process.It is also a liability. The more isolated we are as students, the lessprepared we are for an increasingly interdependent world. Should studiocontinue to stand alone.’ With notable exceptions, contemporary architecturaleducation is based on the Bauhaus model, now eighty years old. Practicehas undergone radical change in the same time period. Is studio outdated?Can we become architects without this experience? Deadline for submissionis January 19, 2004. 

Contact R. Todd Gabbard, CRiT Editor-in-Chief,by email at crit@aiasnatl.org formore information on getting published in issue 57.

Going Beyondthe ADA:  Meeting the Needs of the Emerging 21st Century Demographicsand Customers

This Universal Design Institute programwill be held March 11, 2004 at the College of Design, NCSU, Raleigh, NC.This one-day institute responds to the growing need for information aboutchanging customer, design, and construction issues in the 21st Century.The altered demographics of America have produced a growing need for environmentsthat better support average people’s typical activities. Participants willunderstand- the importance of universal design (UD), how UD fits into currentarchitectural practice, UD as a process and outcome, the Seven Principlesof UD, who UD benefits, the difference between UD and accessible and codecompliant design, the functional rationale behind universal features andmeasurements and learn how to include UD in their practice, Participantswill be eligible for AIA Continuing Education Credits. See: www.design.ncsu.edu/cont-ed 

Homeof the Future at 2004 International Builders Show

All American Homes, LLC is buildingthe NextGen04 Demonstration Home, which will be on display in Las Vegasat both the 2004 Consumer Electronics Show Jan. 8-11, and the 2004 InternationalBuilders' Show Jan. 19-22.  Under the theme of The Evolution of theAmerican Home, the 2,300 square-foot NextGen04 Demonstration Home willshowcase the latest in homebuilding technologies, building materials, universaldesign features, energy efficiency and smart-home automation in a homethat is affordable for average Americans.  Universal design is a conceptthat attempts to plan a home and its products to be usable by as many peopleas possible, at little or no extra cost. It creates a user-friendly homedesign that will let people live comfortably and independently within theirown home, regardless of their ages or physical abilities. 

For information on Las Vegas, see:http://www.coachmen.com/releases/release109.htm. 
For information on the home itself,see: http://www.nextgen04.com/

HUDReleases Fair Housing Accessibility Study

The U.S. Department of Housing andUrban Development (HUD) has released an unprecedented, comprehensive studyof Fair Housing Accessibility in the United States. The study reveals that,in general, compliance for accessibility measures is high. There is slightlyhigher compliance in building plans compared to what was found constructedin the field. Analysis of the data also shows that building characteristicssuch as age, size, and whether there is an elevator appear to account forthe difference in conformance. Conformance scores were lowest overall forthe construction of reinforced walls for grab bars. Other areas of lowcompliance were accessible light switch locations, and accessible kitchensand bathrooms.

Source: Seniors Housing E-Review, Vol.35, 11/26/03, (not yet archived and will be available at: http://www.nahbrc.org/seniors2.asp?TrackID=&CategoryID=1751)
Full Report: http://www.swinter.com/PressReleases/HUDStdy.pdf

AModel for Accessibility, Volume 1

The Center on Disability Studies (CDS),University of Hawaii at Manoa has released ‘A Model for Accessibility.’This model represents the culmination of nearly a year’s work by a specialcommittee set up by CDS to look at the inclusion of individuals with disabilitiesin all of the projects, programs and events that are sponsored by the Center.‘A Model for Accessibility’ provides project directors, faculty, studentsand staff with guidelines for ensuring that individuals with disabilitiesare truly represented in the work that we do. The Center explains, ‘Ourgoal is also to see that A Model for Accessibility is adopted by otherdepartments and projects throughout the University and the community.’

Full Text: http://www.cds.hawaii.edu/_pdf/new/final.pdf

SociallyResponsible Architecture

The most recent issue of _line (Vol03-4/03), a publication of the American Institute of Architects, San Francisco,focuses on Socially Responsible Architecture.  By sharing differentstories from across the broad spectrum of social involvement, this issueof _line looks at the idea of socially responsible architecture and showshow some architects work to improve the social condition. Some architectschoose political action or teaching, some try to connect their everydaywork to a sociopolitical idea, and others pursue altruistic activitiesquite apart from practice. For the full text of this issue, see: http://www.linemag.org/_line/

Structuresfor Inclusion 4 Conference

This conference will be held March24-26, 2004 in Atlanta Georgia.  Organized by the Association forCommunity Design (ACD), a professional support network, and Design Corps,a design service program, this national design conference will exploremethods and means for reaching out to underserved populations with professionaldesign assistance. As the need for public interest design work grows, sodoes the importance of dialog among practitioners who are in the ‘trenches’of community design service and young designers interested in pursuingsimilar careers. In an attempt to catalyze this exchange, the 2004 AnnualConference of the Association for Community Design will be held in conjunctionwith Structures for Inclusion 4. This partnership will allow students,young designers, practitioners, and design advocates to share in the rewardsof both conferences, which will be talking place at alternate times throughoutthe weekend.

For more information: http://www.communitydesign.org/main/conference_select.jsp

TransportationFacilities: Bus Stops, Terminals, and Transit Stations

This video, produced by the Centerfor Universal Design and funded by the National Easter Seals Project Action,outlines requirements in the ADA Standards for Accessible Design. The videois recommended as a companion piece with the ADA Standards Video Serieslisted above. Using live footage, computer illustrations and animations,the video highlights dimensions and specific features of the ADA requirements.Working with accessible bus transit facilities, the video illustrates goodsolutions and demonstrates how persons with disabilities use the elements.To purchase: http://www.design.ncsu.edu/cud/pubs/center/pubslist.htm

VisitabilityHighlighted in FOCUS

This issue of FOCUS - Technical BriefNumber 8: Accessibility in Our Build Environment: Visitability detailsthe National Institute on Disability Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR) commitmentto funding research into the evolving areas of universal design and visitability.The National Center on Dissemination of Disability Research (NCDDR) compileda list of resources from a variety of NIDRR-supported projects as a referenceguide to information about universal design and visitability research.NIDRR-supported projects cited in this issue include the RERC on UniversalDesign and the Built Environment at North Carolina State University, theRERC on Universal Design at Buffalo, and the RRTC on Independent LivingManagement at Buffalo.

Full text: http://www.ncddr.org/du/products/focus/focus8/

WORLD

DisabledPersons International (DPI) World Summit

Summit 2004 will take place September8 - 10, 2004 in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Canada.  The DPI World Summitwill be an opportunity for national assemblies, disability organizations,NGOs, international development agencies, as well as local and nationalgoods and services providers in the disability field to discuss and shareinformation. The purpose of the Summit is to pursue the issues identifiedat the DPI 6th World Assembly in Sapporo, Japan, to address the issue ofdiversity, and to prepare for the next World Assembly in South Africa in2006. The theme for the Summit will focus on women, youth, and Indigenouspeoples with disabilities, as well as equality of language - English, French,Spanish and alternate formats.

For more information: http://www.dpi.org/en/events/world_summit/06-23-03_summit2004.htm

W084- Building Comfortable Environments for All

Annalisa Morini of Italy is the newCoordinator of the revised CIB Working Commission W084 on ‘Building ComfortableEnvironment for All’. During its meeting of June 16th 2003 in Paris, theCIB Programme Committee decided to terminate former TG19 on "Designingfor the Ageing Society" and merge its scope and objectives into that offormer W084 on ‘Building Non-Handicapping Environments’. Morini reportsthat a main topic for the commission, design for a better usable environmentis becoming an economic necessity, because of the increasing number ofpeople over 60 and of the very old (over 85). It is important to note thatthe trend is shared with developing countries but not the developed. Ifwe refer to the saying by the World Health Organization (WHO) ‘Developedcountries became rich before they got old, but developing countries willget older before they become rich’. Furthermore, although there is an increasein the older population, people do not want to live one third of theirlife in an institute or in collective houses. This is found to be truedespite the differences in culture among countries, ranging from the USA,where people are more accustomed to change their places of residence andall other industrialized countries. People prefer to age in place. Thus,accessible, adaptable housing, supported by services and new technologies,can offer solutions to this phenomenon as it addresses most of the issuesrelating to this change in global statistics. 

For more information on Ms. Moriniand W084, see: http://www.cibworld.nl/pages/ib/0302/W084.html

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CALENDAR

January 7, 2004: Abstract Deadline- The inaugural meeting of the Canadian Disability Studies Association/AssociationCanadienne d'Etudes sur le Handicap at the Congress of the Social SciencesFederation of Canada, May 29-30 2004, be held in Winnipeg, Canada. 

Details at: http://www.disabilitystudies.ca/eduproj.htm#call

January 9, 2004: Grant Proposal Deadline- Assistive Technology and Aging in Place Grants Competition.  Sponsoredby The NAHB Research Centers National Center for Seniors Housing Research(NCSHR), in cooperation with the Administration on Aging. 

Details at: http://www.nahbrc.org/Docs/MainNav/Seniors/4082_RFP_Final.pdf

January 12, 2004: Deadline - FifteenthAIA (American Institute of Architects) Education Honor Awards Program,sponsored by the AIA Educator/Practitioner Network (EPN) 

Details at: http://www.aia.org/education/04_edhonorsaward.asp

January 15, 2004: Deadline - AAM AccessibilityAward recognizes an American museum that has made an outstanding contributionin improving accessibility for people with disabilities using the principlesof universal design in the areas of programmatic or structural accommodations(Web-based and landscape architecture accommodations will not be consideredat this time). 

See: http://www.aam-us.org/awards_for_excellence.cfm#accessibility

January 22, 2004: First InternationalSymposium on ICT Accessibility in Asia-Pacific Region (ISIA) in Tokyo,Japan. The main topic of the Symposium is accessibility of info-communicationsservices/ software/equipment by all people including elderly and peoplewith disabilities. The official language of the symposium is English. 

See: http://www.glocom.ac.jp/project/accessibility/sympo_20040122.html 

January 25, 2004: Designing Environmentsfor Infants and Young Children, Clearwater, Florida.  This conferencefeatures presentations on the aspects of child development and neurosensorydevelopment, including the works of professionals who have studied theissues involved in the environmental design for young children. 

See: http://www.cme.hsc.usf.edu/coph/village/index.html

January 24-25, 2004: Rehab Dubai 2004Exhibition, Dubai World Trade Centre.   Rehab Dubai 2004 exhibitionwill showcase the latest rehabilitation products and services. 

See: http://www.rehab-dubai.com/exhibition/exh01.htm#Rehab%20Dubai%202004%20Exhibition/

February 4, 2004: Deadline -- NCARBPrize Call for Submissions. For the third year in a row, NCARB is hostingits Prize for the Creative Integration of Education and Practice withinthe Academy. NAAB-accredited programs are invited to submit establishedprojects, completed or in-progress by the end of the fall 2003 term, whichexemplify an integration of education with practice. 

Details at: http://www.ncarb.org/forms/ncarbprize03.pdf

March 11, 2004: Universal Design Institute,Going Beyond the ADA: Meeting the Needs of the Emerging 21st Century Demographicsand Customers, College of Design, NCSU, Raleigh, NC. 

Details: www.design.ncsu.edu/cont-ed

March 15-20, 2004: 19th Annual InternationalConference ‘Technology and Persons with Disabilities’, at Hilton Los AngelesAirport and Los Angeles Airport Marriott Hotels, Los Angeles, CA sponsoredby California State University Northridge. Conference website includesproceeding from previous conferences. 

See: http://www.csun.edu/cod/conf/index.htm

March 16-17, 2004: HEAT 2004 (The Homeand Electronic Assistive Technology). University of York, UK. ElectronicAssistive Technology (EAT) can support people with disabilities and theelderly to increase their independence and quality of life, but to do soit must be dependable. The HEAT workshop provides a forum for discussionand debate on issues of dependability as they apply to the different typesof EAT in the home. 

See: http://www.gdewsbury.ukideas.com/Heat.html

March 22-24, 2004: 2nd Cambridge Workshopon Universal Access and Assistive Technology (CWUAAT) (incorporating the5th Cambridge Workshop on Rehabilitation Robotics) ‘Designing a More InclusiveWorld’ Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge, UK. This workshopis sponsored by Royal Mail. 

See: http://rehab-www.eng.cam.ac.uk/cwuaat/cwuaat04.htm

March 24-26, 2004: Structures for Inclusion4, Atlanta Georgia.  Organized by the Association for Community Design(ACD), a professional support network, and Design Corps, a design serviceprogram. 

See: http://www.communitydesign.org/main/conference_select.jsp

April 22-24, 2004: Barrier Free 2004International Trade Fair on Barrier Free Equipments & Rehabilitationfor the Elderly & the Disabled organized by the Osaka Prefecture Councilon Social Welfare and Television Osaka, Inc.  To be held at the InternationalExhibition Center, Osaka. 

For more information, see: http://www.itp.gr.jp/bf/english/general.html

September 5-8, 2004: 7th IFA GlobalConference on Ageing, titled ‘Global Ageing: Sustaining Development’ organizedby:  International Federation on Ageing (IFA) & The SingaporeAction Group of Elders (SAGE), in Singapore. 

Website: http://www.7ifaconference.com

October 27-29, 2004: Open Space: PeopleSpace: An International Conference on Inclusive Environments, Edinburgh,Scotland, sponsored by OPENspace: the research centre for inclusive accessto outdoor environments. 

See: www.openspace.eca.ac.uk

November 17-21, 2004: Design ResearchSociety International Conference, Monash University, Melbourne. Abstractsdue 28 November 2003. The theme is 'FUTUREGROUND', and will feature leadingedge design research from the international research community. 

See: http://www.futureground.monash.edu.au

December 8-12, 2004: ‘Designing forthe 21st Century III: An International Conference on Universal Design,’Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Sponsored by Adaptive Environments and a numberof international groups, including Metropolis Magazine. The conferenceincludes a student design competition, charettes within Rio de Janeiroand an Educator’s Forum. 

See:  http://www.adaptiveenvionments.org/21century/

July 22-27 2005: 11th InternationalConference on Human-Computer Interaction jointly with Symposium on HumanInterface (Japan) 2005, 6th International Conference on Engineering Psychologyand Cognitive Ergonomics, 3rd International Conference on Universal Accessin Human-Computer Interaction, 1st International Conference on VirtualReality, and 1st International Conference on Usability and Internationalization,Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. 

See: http://hcii2005.engr.wisc.edu/

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Centerfor Universal Design, College of Design, North Carolina State University

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