Produced monthly by Elaine Ostroff in cooperation with
the Adaptive Environments Center, Boston, MA., USA

Volume 2, Number 3, MARCH 2000

Contents

• Editor's Note
• News from the Global Network
• Canada
• Germany
• Korea
• Norway
• Portugal
• United States
• Designing for the 21^st Century Conference
• Student Design Competition applications STILL available
• Global Universal Design Educator's Network e-mail list
• Calendar
• Adding your information, questions to the Online News

EDITOR'S NOTE

In this issue we are pleased to include for the first time news from two countries: from Germany, a major research project, "Household technology to help older people maintain an independent household" and from Portugal, about Web Accessibility legislation.

We learn about the Canadian opening of Unlimited by Design, first mounted at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum in New York City; the continuing high level development and promotion of Norway's efforts to integrate universal design in planning; and the sophisticated product database on the US Access Board site. We include excerpts from a milestone article in the Boston Globe, about universal design in automobiles. We have one last reminder for submissions to the World Millennium Congress in Korea and a new opportunity to submit presentations to a computer Conference on Universal Usability. News about Designing for the 21st Century II highlights the topical categories that now can be searched and conference updates.

Information from the Monthly Online News may be freely copied and quoted as long as the individual author, and/or web site and this source is cited. Previous issues of the Online News are available online at the Adaptive Environments web site at in the Universal Design section.

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NEWS FROM THE GLOBAL NETWORK

CANADA

UNLIMITED BY DESIGN

Opens June 6, 2000, with Design Exchange.

The Design Exchange in Toronto announces June 6, 2000 as the opening date for 'Unlimited by Design' the exhibition introduced at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution in New York City in late 1998. 'Unlimited by Design' will be remounted at the Design Exchange with additional examples of universal design by Canadians. It was the first museum exhibition to explore universal design, a topic of increasing importance as our population ages. Universal design makes life easier for everyone, by ensuring that products and environments are safer, more comfortable, more affordable, accessible, adaptable and easier to use for people of all sizes, ages and levels of ability. The exhibit explores universal design through interactive environments and hands-on displays of Canadian and international consumer products. Highlights include a prototypical kitchen and a safe playground for children at all levels of ability.

For more information, see: www.designexchange.org/pub2.html.

Ed Note; Thanks to Bruce Hannah, the co-curator of the original exhibit, for bringing us this news.

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GERMANY

SENTHA - Independence by Design

SENTHA is an interdisciplinary research team working on "Household technology to help older people maintain an independent household". The team is comprised of the Technical University Berlin (TU), the Berlin Institute for Social Research (BIS), the German Center for Research on Aging (DZFA), the School of Fine Arts Berlin (HdK), the Brandenberg Technical University Cottbus (BTU), and the Center for Technology and Society at the TU Berlin. They are "Building on empirical investigations of the special requirements placed by elder people on everyday household products, new products are being developed that can better meet the needs of both older people and, by extension, of others as well." SENTHA receives funding from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG). The project is directed by Prof. Dr.Wolfgang Friesdorf. We learned about SENTHA from Mathias Knigge, a research assistant in the project. The following is excerpted from their English web site at: www.sentha.tu-berlin.de/index_e.html. The background and issues cited include concerns that we see worldwide.

Motivation und Strategy
In the year 2000, the share of senior citizens within the overall population will climb to about 25 percent and reach roughly 35 percent in 2030. With the sharp rise in the average life expectancy over the last decades, old age has come into its own as a period in the life span.

There are seven sub projects:

1. Social Sciences - Berlin Institute for Social Research: User perspective, analysis of user requirements, and consequences of technology;
2. Ergonomics - Technical University Berlin Institute for Ergonomics: Human dexterity and physical abilities;
3. Engineering Design - Technical University Berlin, Mechanical Engineering Department: Engineering Design, Systematic design process;
4. Product Design - School of Fine Arts Berlin, Institute for Product and Process Design: Design and market positioning of senior friendly products;
5. Medical Engineering - Technical University Berlin Institute for Medical Engineering: Security and support functions;
6. Communication Engineering - Brandenburgische Brandenburg Technical University Cottbus Chair for Communication Engineering: Smart Home applications (communication and networks);
7. Coordination and Architecture - Center for Technology and Society, Technical University Berlin: Organizational coordination and integration of project findings.

Following are some of the details on the Sub project Product Design, excerpted from their web site at: www.sentha.tu-berlin.de/tpd_e/index-tpd.html.

Within the larger study, sub project "design" faces a two-fold task: to develop new product ideas and to find their position in the market for senior products. To this end, the team is examining aspects of both product design and visual communication. At the moment, our ever-aging society must select from a worrisomely narrow spectrum of products designed with the needs of senior citizens in mind. In addition, the image of most technological systems meant to assist older people in maintaining their independence at home suggests illness, prostheses, and social ostracism. Even today this stigmatizing picture precludes a broader acceptance for most senior friendly products among its target population. In terms of "old age," moreover, the diverse lifestyles and situations of people in this age group -- as varied in their later years as in their earlier ones -- are often disregarded. This blanket view of "old people" also finds expression in the absence of a culturally differentiated product language.

Within the overall project, the challenges for sub project "design" are to:

• Develop a non stigmatizing design language for senior friendly products
• Enlarge the product spectrum to reflect the cultural differentiation among older people
• Expand and optimize the areas in which senior friendly products can function
• Improve the cultural acceptance of senior products

The key to these goals is the concept of product endurance and appeal, to develop products that can be used by the greatest range of age groups ("design for all," "transgenerational design").

Ed Note: The Sub project on Product Design references the work of James J. Pirkl and Roger Coleman.

We will report on SENTHA outcomes in future issues of the Online News.

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KOREA

DEADLINE FOR PROPOSAL SUBMISSION FOR CONGRESS

Reminder! The "World Congress on Environmental Design for the New Millennium" deadline for submissions to present is March 31, 2000. See the web site for the full CALL for proposals: www.millenniumED.org/index_eng.html. Questions? Write to seoul2000@millennium.org.

The "World Congress on Environmental Design for the New Millennium" in Seoul, Korea involves three distinctive but related conferences: the World Conference on Universal Design, November 8 - 13, 2000; the World Conference on Green Design, November 13-17, 2000; and the World Conference on Cultural Design, November 17-22, 2000.

The World Conference on Universal Design will focus on issues related to preserving human dignity and equality thereby creating a more humane environment where design democracy will be realized; The World Conference on Green Design will devote on issues related to sustainable concept which centers on building ecological environment; The World Conference on Cultural Design will examine ways to provide a common ground where the traditional, the present, the digital future, and the diverse cultures coexist in harmony.

A Students Conference will also be held in conjunction with the Congress to transfer the wisdom of the currently active professionals to the students - the future leaders in this field; to enhance and upgrade their creative minds; and to provide them with a chance to have international field experience and to interact with other international students.

Proposals are invited from professionals and students.

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NORWAY

Ministry of The Environment Directive on Planning

The Norwegian Ministry of The Environment has recently issued a directive/circular on Planning. Olav Bringa reports on the latest development in Norway's unique policy effort to elevate accessibility issues from a fragmented, technical approach. Bringa notes, "The Government has decided that universal design in planning is a priority area, and the circular is a tool to achieve accessibility and better solutions for all. National political objectives and existing laws are emphasized to accomplish better results.

Bringa, who is a Project Manager with the Ministry of the Environment, wrote an article in the June 1999 issue of the Online News that introduces the Norwegian approach. You can review this at: www.adaptenv.org/global/default.asp, select the June 1999 issue. Also, he is presenting on this approach in, 'Completing the Chain of Objectives: Universal Design in Planning' at Designing for the 21st Century II, June 14-28, 2000.

The circular give instructions to county and municipality administrations on what the content in plans should be and how the planning process should be conducted. Good user participation is an important issue. Plans that do not comply with the circular may be stopped.

In the second part of the circular the Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development defines how the Building Authorities should consider applications from builders and architects to grant exemption from the Building Regulations concerning accessibility. It may be studied at: www.miljo.no/pfa/english/t_99_5/index.html."

Following is the Table of Contents for the circular published by the Royal Norwegian Ministry of the Environment:

Circular T-5/99 E, Accessibility for All

Foreword

PART 1 - The Ministry of the Environment
Accessibility and planning for all
1. Introduction
2. Distribution of authority
3. National objectives
4. Municipal planning and user participation
5. Planning and physical design

Appendix 1 - to Part 1: Relevant Acts of law, regulations and circulars
Appendix 2 - to Part 1: Literature

PART 2 - The Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development:
The requirement for access to buildings - exemptions and dispensation

Here is an excerpt from 5. Design and Planning. It indicates the scope and depth of this remarkable high level approach.

5. Planning and physical design
In this chapter, we will explain in more detail some of the constraints that the consideration of accessibility should entail in the preparation of municipal master plans, local development plans and building development plans. This chapter contains a brief introduction to the ways in which planning in accordance with the Planning and Building Act can be used to promote the national objectives. Sections 5.1 to 5.6 below describe a number of relevant principles of town planning, land use and development of different types of areas. Points 5.7 and 5.8 describe a number of general rules and guidelines for the preparation of planning documents in order to ensure good accessibility for all.

Universal design is a planning principle that should form the starting point for all planning in county municipalities and municipalities. All the recommendations in this chapter are based on the principle of universal design. Universal design can be used for both the preparation of plans on all levels of detail, from the preparation of an overall master plan right down to the most detailed level of planning, and for the design of constructions and buildings. This principle entails that the physical surroundings, i.e. buildings, outdoor areas, technical installations and other facilities, are designed and built in such a way that they can equally easily be used by all members of society, including people with reduced mobility, vision, hearing and understanding and reduced tolerance to pollution and allergy inducing substances.

Accessibility should be achieved to as great a degree as possible by means of the overall design without the need for special adaptation, special solutions or other extra solutions.

It is important to note that universal design should be an aim in all planning and should be striven for in every possible way. Reasonable consideration should be shown and solutions must be chosen that provide the greatest degree of accessibility on the basis of the local conditions. Good planning will often allow satisfactory accessibility in places with difficult physical surroundings.

The Ministry of the Environment will follow up this circular with more detailed material that provides concrete examples and guidelines.

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PORTUGAL

Portuguese Parliament promotes Web Accessibility

Portugal became the fourth country in the world to officially promote web accessibility for people with disabilities, after the United States, Australia and Canada, reports Francisco Godinho. On July 29, 1999 the Portuguese Government, through its Council of Ministers, approved a resolution making mandatory the adoption of accessibility features for people with disabilities in the Web design of the information made available by the General Directorates and similar agencies, departments or services, as well as that rendered available by any public corporation (State Corporations, State Universities, etc.). Concretely, the design must ensure that:

1. Reading can be performed without resorting to sight, precision movements, simultaneous actions or pointing devices, namely mouses.
2. Information retrieval and searching can be performed via aural, visual or tactile interfaces.

These measures are included in the implementation plan for the National Initiative for Citizens with Special Needs in the Information Society and pursue the Recommendation and Resolution of the Parliamentary Commission for Constitutional Affairs, Rights, Freedoms and Guarantees regarding the "Petition for the Accessibility of the Portuguese Internet", approved on the 30th of June, 1999, which called for the adoption of appropriate measures to guarantee to all citizens with special needs (specially people with disabilities and the elderly) full accessibility to information made available by the Government and all other public services on the Internet.

Petition for the Accessibility of the Portuguese Internet The "Petition for the Accessibility of the Portuguese Internet", coordinated by the Portuguese Accessibility Special Interest Group (PASIG), was submitted by email to the Portuguese Parliament, in February, after collecting 9,000 electronic signatures in www.acessibilidade.net. This petition, innovative in its form (first electronic petition submitted to a Parliament in Europe) and content, proposed the adoption of a set of basic rules to be applied in the production of the information offered on the Internet by the Government and all other public services, with the purpose of facilitating its access to people with special needs.

About PASIG - Portuguese Accessibility Special Interest Group PASIG's original name is "GUIA - Grupo Português pelas Iniciativas em Acessibilidade". GUIA, which means "guide" in Portuguese, is the acronym for "Portuguese Group for Accessibility Initiatives". PASIG is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting Portuguese initiatives in the accessibility field. The Petition was the first official initiative of PASIG, which also joins other efforts that have been conducted in order to face the accessibility issue, as the "Web Accessibility Initiative" promoted by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) at the international level, or even the "National Initiative for the Citizens with Special Needs in the Information Society" promoted by the Portuguese Government through the Mission for the Information Society.

For more information see:

Council of Ministers Resolution
www.acessibilidade.net/petition/government_resolution.html

Parliament Report
www.acessibilidade.net/petition/parliament_report.html

PASIG and Petition for the Accessibility of the Portuguese Internet
www.acessibilidade.net/index_eng.html

Contact: Francisco Godinho at: f.godinho@mail.telepac.pt.

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UNITED STATES

The Access Board's Market Monitoring Report on Accessible Telecommunications

The Market Monitoring Report is the Access Board's snapshot of the state of the art of telecommunications access -- what are the current barriers faced by people with disabilities, and what products and features are available to overcome those access barriers. This extremely useful database is packed with information that can be retrieved in a variety of ways, depending on the user's interest. The database was developed as part of the Access Board's responsibility under the Telecommunications Act of 1996 Act to develop guidelines for accessibility of telecommunications equipment and customer premises equipment in conjunction with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).

The Access Board is also charged with reviewing and updating the guidelines periodically. This first Market Monitoring Report is intended to be the initial baseline for telecommunications equipment and customer premises equipment and how they address the Access Board Guidelines. Over a period of time, the data collected for future Reports may be compared to earlier data to identify areas where progress is being made and where greater focus is needed.

The Report consists of two related components:

1. Narrative sections with explanations of the Section 255 Guidelines, descriptions of the different types of telecommunications products and their access features and problems, the Market Monitoring consumer and product research results, and recommendations.
2. Searchable database that links four elements:
   • The Access Board's Section 255 Guidelines
   • Disabilities
   • Access features
   • Products

There is an easy to use screen with pop-up menus that help you find what you want. For example, first select a Product Type, such as 'fax machine' or 'head set' or 'light signaler'. Then select an Access Feature such as 'adjustable ringer volume' or 'any-button answer' or 'auto-answer' or 'automatic redial'. Then, click "Search" to find models with that feature.

The Market Monitoring Report was prepared by Jim Tobias of Inclusive Technologies and can be seen at: www.access-board.gov/mmr/. It will also be at Designing for the 21st Century II, in Providence RI, June 14 - 18, 2000, in the media room for people to use throughout the conference.

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ACM Conference on Universal Usability

The ACM Conference on Universal Usability: Solutions, Systems, and Methods will be held in Washington, DC, November 16-17, 2000. Here is an excerpt from the Call for Participation that can be found at: www.acm.org/sigchi/cuu/.

Submissions are due May 1, 2000.

"We invite submissions for the ACM Conference on Universal Usability, to be held in Washington, D.C., November 16 and 17, 2000. We seek work whose aim is to enable the widest range of users to succeed in using technology for information, communications, entertainment, education, e-commerce, civic systems, and government services. Challenges include the diversity of users (experts & novices, old & young, educated and illiterate, disabled, forgotten, those in ill health, etc.); the wide range of technology (e.g.; 100 to 1 ratios in processor and network speeds), and the gap between what users know and what they need to know. We are interested in research, new systems and technologies, empirical evaluations of systems, policy suggestions, and systems that support community activities. A diverse set of participants is expected including technologists, policy makers, advocates, users, and researchers."

ACM is the Association for Computing Machinery, founded in 1947; ACM is the world's first educational and scientific computing society.

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Images of Excellence in Universal Design Now Available on CD ROM

Images of Excellence in Universal Design was a 1996 competition established to recognize the work of designers who have successfully created facilities and products with characteristics that allow use by as broad a group of people as possible - be they young or old, large or small, left handed or right-handed, with or without disabilities. It was jointly sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Building Museum, and Universal Designers & Consultants, Inc.

The search for outstanding examples of universal design resulted in more than 100 entries in the fields of architecture, graphic design, industrial design, interior design, and landscape architecture. Entries were judged by an interdisciplinary team of nationally recognized leaders in universal design. The jury selected 37 designs which provided a combination of simplicity, flexibility, tolerance, operability, and maneuverability. Photos of the winning projects have been compiled into a PowerPoint presentation that is available with copies of each image in JPG format and the explanation text in MSWord format on a CD-Rom for use by faculty, students, professionals, advocates, and other interested parties. The collection includes:

• 48 Images of Architectural Design from nine projects
• 7 Images of Graphic Design from two projects
• 26 Images of Industrial Design from ten projects
• 37 Images of Interior Design from eight projects
• 21 Images of Landscape Architecture from eight projects

The collection is available for $50 on CD-Rom (with PowerPoint Presentation) or $350 for 35mm color slides with hardcopy Text. See www.UniversalDesign.com for ordering information.

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Universal Design in Automobiles

Ford's story describes a current television ad - a Ford Focus pulls gingerly into a slot between two cars, a parking spot so tight its doors cannot be opened. The occupants appear trapped - until you see the trunk lid popped from inside and a group of 20-somethings climb over the folded-down rear seat and out through the trunk.

An ad you will never see would feature the same compact car pulling into a handicapped spot, its broad driver's side door opening and a cane pushing out for support on the pavement. The stiff legs of an elderly driver would swing out through the extra-wide, extra-high door, and the driver, sliding down from a high seat, would emerge smoothly.

The new Focus is a car aimed at the young, but it is also emblematic of a subtle but powerful challenge in today's auto industry: How do you sell to a young, high-tech generation, but also produce cars that will meet the physical challenges that confront aging baby boomers?

Rather than design distinct vehicles for the separate groups and plunk them at opposite ends of a linear design continuum, the industry has responded in an inclusive way, striving for an unbroken circle that boldly appeals to one group while fulfilling the needs of another. This approach is necessary because of a long-held truism of auto marketing, said Karen Stewart-Spica of the Lear Corp. in Southfield, Mich., a leader in automotive design and engineering: 'You can sell a young man's car to an old man, but you can't sell an old man's car to a young man.'

So the industry has responded with what Stewart-Spica calls 'transparent enablers' - unobtrusive features that help people use their vehicles. For instance, night vision systems, in which a camera on the grill sees into the darkness and projects images to a space on the windshield - like picture-in-a-picture on some TV sets - are making their way into the market. They appeal to the young as an extension of high-tech life; they are a boon to aging boomers whose night vision is deteriorating.

The Globe article highlights other specific user-friendly and high style features in a number of cars, including the new Chevrolet Suburban; the Saab station wagon; Chevrolet's hot Corvette sports car and their Impala. High tech systems such as OnStar, which uses satellites to track vehicles and alerts service centers if the car's airbags deploy; voice-command systems that could replace climate-control buttons, hand-operated telephones, and myriad other switches, from lights to windshield wipers to sound system controls illustrate the trend toward ageless safety and convenience.

But with all these features making their way to the market, you still will not find any manufacturer that will advertise, 'Here's a car for old people.' Older drivers may want comfort and convenience, 'but we're much more interested in things that make us feel active, make us sense sportiness,' said Freeman Thomas, vice president of design and advanced product strategy for Daimler-Chrysler. 'If you said the Buick LeSabre is for people with arthritis, nobody would buy it,' said Paul Ulrich, manager of General Motors' Paragon Project, which develops vehicles for people with a wide range of physical challenges.

The Globe article cites the ultimate crossover vehicle to be developed thus far as the Lear Corp.'s TransG - for transgenerational - van. 'It is a concept vehicle filled with real-world aids for aging drivers, but whose features would appeal to young families, as well', said Patrick Murray, Lear vice president for product analysis and industrial design.

Its steering wheel, dash display, and foot pedals move toward the driver, aiding with vision and making it unnecessary for short drivers to crunch themselves dangerously forward near the dash and airbag. Seats swivel 45 degrees for easy entry and exit - helpful to aging drivers and to young families moving children and groceries in and out of the vehicle. The top of the steering wheel is open like the yoke in an airplane, offering racy appeal to young drivers. But it also provides a clearer view to gauges on the dash, where data such as speed are digitally displayed in large numbers, and where computer graphics, such as maps or other information, can be electronically overlaid atop analog gauges, all features that older drivers might find helpful.

'The big gauges are not only good for those whose eyesight might be fading,' said Lear's Murray, 'but they're also good for young drivers who might not be paying the attention to driving that they should.' Another feature of the TransG cited by Murray is its seatbelt system: four-point belts that buckle at the midpoint of the torso and eliminate the need for the odd reaches back and around that standard belts require.

The TransG, Murray said, is a classic example of a generational crossover from which manufacturers could adapt features for production autos, the sorts of features you will increasingly find in virtually any vehicle - if you take the time to look for them.

The full story ran on page A01 of the Boston Globe on 3/5/2000.
(c) Copyright 2000 Globe Newspaper Company.

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DESIGNING FOR THE 21^st CENTURY II
An International Conference on Universal Design

Search online at: www.adaptenv.org/21century/searchtopics.asp.

Now there is a new page in the online Program that you can search by topical categories to help choose among the 18 pre-conference sessions, 90 concurrent sessions and seven working groups.

The categories are:

• Aging
• Arts/Culture
• Business/Marketing
• Children
• Codes/Guidelines
• Design Education
• Developing Economies
• Employment
• General
• Information
• Technology
• Learning Environments
• Policy/Planning
• Products
• Public
• Places/Urban Design
• Recreation/Nature
• Residential
• Sustainability
• User/Advocacy

Each category lists all the sessions that are grouped in that category (many sessions fall into more than one category, so depending on your interest you can find sessions under multiple topics. By clicking on a particular session you get to its location in the schedule. Many sessions now have a linked description that you can review. As possible, we have tried to avoid conflicting schedules within a topic.

In addition, updates that note additions, and changes are now available with the full program announcement on the conference website at www.adaptenv.org/21century/. Registration can be completed online at the website as well as by mail and fax.

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GLOBAL UNIVERSAL DESIGN EDUCATOR'S E-MAIL LIST

This is distinct from the newsletter that you are now receiving. This is an automated electronic list. We invite you to subscribe if you want additional, more frequent dialogue with other educators, designers, students and advocates. To subscribe, send a message to: guden-l@adaptenv.org

Leave the subject blank. In the body of the message, write 'subscribe. This must be from the computer that you use for your e-mail.

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CALENDAR

March 1-3, 2000
Clearing the Path: Arts and Accessibility in New England
Royal Sonesta Hotel, Cambridge, MA
A regional symposium that will give an opportunity for New England arts organizations to move toward accessibility for all people.
See: www.vsamass.org/arts-and-accessibility.html

March 3-March 5, 2000
14th Josephine L. Taylor Leadership Institute, "Achieving An Accessible World: Partnerships, Roadblocks, And Opportunities", American Foundation for the Blind
Marriott Quorum Hotel, Dallas, Texas
Contact info at:
Phone: 972-661-2800
Fax: 972-934-1731
URL: www.afb.org/jltli/announce00.html

March 20-25, 2000
15th Annual International Conference, "Technology and Persons with Disabilities"
Hilton Los Angeles Airport Hotel and the Los Angeles Airport Marriott Hotel
The conference covers all aspects of technology and disabilities, and features a faculty of internationally recognized speakers.
See: www.csun.edu/cod/

May 10-14, 2000
Caring Communities for the 21st Century: Imagining the Possible, "Towards a Community for All"
United Nations Headquarters, New York
See: www.un.org/events/agingcf.htm

May 10-14, 2000
Building Bridges: Connecting People, Research and Design
edra 31 will be held at the Cathedral Hills Hotel in San Francisco, California.
The conference organizers invite the participation of design educators and professionals, planners, social scientists, and others interested in the relationship of people and places and the design and management of places that are responsive to human needs.
See: http://www.telepath.com/edra/home.html

June 2-4, 2000
United Kingdom Institute for Inclusive Design, London, England
This will include the Annual General Meeting of the European Institute on Design and Disability.
Contact info: Andrew Walker at andrew@cottage.sonnet.co.uk

June 6-7, 2000
Mobile Communications, Encouraging Developments for persons with Disabilities and Elderly People Worldwide
A Rehabilitation International Seminar in Potsdam, Germany.
Web site: www.dvfr.de
Contact: info@dvfr.de

June 14 - 18, 2000
Designing for the 21st Century II, An International Conference on Universal Design
Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Contact info:
E-mail: 21stcentury@adaptenv.org
Web site: www.adaptenv.org/21century

June 28 - July 2, 2000
RESNA 2000 Annual Conference, Technology for the New Millennium
RESNA 2000 brings together people who use, develop, manufacture, and deliver these technologies.
Omni Rosen Hotel, Orlando, Florida
See: www.resna.org/resna/resna2k/index.html

July 12 - 15, 2000
AHEAD - "Y2KC: Universal Designs in Higher Education"
Join AHEAD in the New Millennium in Kansas City, Missouri, the Heart of America!
See: www.ahead.org/conf2000.htm

November 8-22, 2000
World Congress on Environmental Design for the New Millennium
Seoul, Korea
This committee aims to collect world wisdom and creativity to shape our built environment for the next Millennium.
See: www.millenniumED.org

June 1-5, 2001
Inclusion by Design - Planning the Barrier-Free World in Montréal, Canada (Palais des Congrès de Montréal)
The Canadian Council on Rehabilitation and Work is hosting an international world congress. Submissions Due April 5, 2000.
Web site: http://www.ccrw.org
E-mail: ktoupin@ccrw.org

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