Global Universal Design Educators
Monthly Online News
Produced and distributed monthly by Elaine Ostroff
Volume 2 Number 8
, November
2000
CONTENTS
- Editor’s
Note
- News
from the Global Network
- AUSTRALIA
- JAPAN
- CANADA
- UNITED
STATES
- Access
to Design Professions: Architects Make News
- Frank
Bowe: Universal Design in Education
- Center
for Universal Design: Online Course in Universal Design
- Pattie
Moore: Perspective on IDSA Annual Design Awards
- Jim
Pirkl: Transgenerational House
- Evan
Terry Associates: Positions Available
- US
Access Board Updates: Children’s Play Guidelines, IEQ
- Access
to Design Professions: Architects Make News
- AUSTRALIA
- Designing
for the 21st Century II, An International Conference on
- Global
Universal Design Educator’s Network NEW e-mail list
- Calendar
- Adding your information, questions to the Online News
EDITOR’S
NOTE
This
issue includes a variety of personal reports. We hear from Australia about
universal design education, from Japan on the new transportation law and
from the US, insights on the winners of the 2000 IDSA awards. We learn
from the author of an important new book how he uses universal design in
education and get a preview of a transgenerational home in development.
There are two new calls for proposals for conferences in Canada and an
opportunity to study universal design online.
We include news about the ever-productive US Access Board’s
latest guidelines for children’s play areas and their emerging work on
indoor environmental air quality. Our apologies to those who have sent
material that is not included. If you sent materials not yet published,
they will be in the December issue.
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:
<http://www.adaptenv.org/global/default.asp?f=5>.
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NEWS
FROM THE GLOBAL NETWORK
AUSTRALIA
Universal
Design Teaching in Western Australia
Jaye
Johnson writes from Western Australian on the origins of a very successful
beginning in the teaching of universal design at the University of Western
Australia. As the state disability liaison officer for Western Australia,
Johnson covers all post secondary education areas promoting opportunities
for students with a disability and providing information and developing
resources for educators. She describes the origins of the design studio
that was presented at Designing for the 21st Century II
conference in June 2000.
After
returning from the 1998 international universal design conference in New
York, she approached Romesh Goonewardene and Annette Pedersen, faculty in
the architecture department, about universal design. Johnson said, “We
ended up with 70 hours of design studio and we collaborated on a program
with people who have disabilities working with the students. It was
fantastic for all parties. The
people with disabilities I recruited were paid as consultants and loved
working with the students in the university.
Although
that project had received only modest development funds from the
university, it has had the effect of making a huge impact on the school as
a whole. Romesh tells me that in other assignments the students are asked
- no matter the assignment - to consider the principals of UD. I could not
have wished for a better outcome - after all I consider it to be the aim
of having UD just a normal part of people’s thinking and not something
extra or special or different. So things are moving along well here”.
For
more information on the process of recruiting people with disabilities in
the design studio, contact Johnson at: <jayej@iinet.net.au>.
Also, there is a paper by Goonewardene and Pedersen in the conference
Proceedings at:
<http://www.adaptenv.org/21century/proceedings4.asp#6C1>.
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CANADA
International
Association of Gerontology: 17th
Congress
Gloria
Gutman, PhD, President, 2001 World Congress of Gerontology invites you to
participate in the International Association of Gerontology’s 17th
World Congress to be held in Vancouver, Canada, July 1 - 6, 2001.
Submissions must be received by December 31, 2000.
Internationally
recognized experts in gerontology will share their knowledge and
experience through invited symposia and plenary sessions.
Submitted symposia, round tables, papers, and posters will address
key topics and issues in research, education, public policy and clinical
practice. In addition to a strong scientific program the Congress will
feature an exhibition and trade show, an exciting social program, and a
number of pre and post Congress special interest events.
Your
active participation in the exchange of ideas and information and in
networking with people from different countries and disciplines will
advance your personal knowledge and the field of gerontology.
Vancouver
is known as one of the most beautiful cities in the world, with much to
offer Congress participants and their partners. Plan now to join us in
Vancouver in July 2001.
Here
is the link to the First Announcement/Call for Papers to view or print
<http://www.harbour.sfu.ca/iag/abstguid.html>
Society
for Disability Studies: Call for Abstracts & Proposals
“Democracy,
Diversity & Disability” is the theme of the 2001 Society for
Disabilities Studies (SDS) Conference to be held on June 21-24 in
Winnipeg, Canada. Taking
place for the first time outside the USA, the SDS annual conference is
being hosted by the Canadian Center on Disability Studies (CCDS).
December
15 is the deadline for submissions for the scientific program.
Submissions solicited are: abstracts for individual papers &
presentations, panels, roundtables or performances. Submissions should
address the theme, taking into consideration the following topics:
disability & culture, disability & politics, disability studies
& research methods and disability studies & universal design.
Each
plenary session will have an international focus and the breakout sessions
are expected to represent different parts of the world, a variety of
disability organizations and a broad range of academic disciplines.
The program organizers are Henry Enns, director of the CCDS, and Karen Hirsch, SDS Board Member. SDS is an international nonprofit organization that promotes the exploration of disability through research, artistic production and teaching. The full details and all the forms can be found on the SDFS website at: <http://www.uic.edu/orgs/sds/>. If you have questions, send an email to <ccds@escape.ca>.
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JAPAN
Kyoyo-Hin
Foundation:
Some
of you will remember the E&C Project, the voluntary association from
http://kyoyohin.org/eng/index.html
The
Kyoyo-Hin Foundation consists of two memberships. One is Corporate
membership and the other is individual membership. Executive Director is
Ms. Atsuko Kamoshida,
industrial designer. Vice directors are Mr. Masahiro Oga, President of
Shogakukan and Mr. Kantaro Tomiyama, President of TOMY Corporation.
The
Kyoyo-Hin Foundation works and exchange information with following 5
groups or organizations to conduct several activities:
- Companies,
manufacturers and association of industries
- Consumers’
groups including the disability or the elderly groups
- Standardization
bodies in the world as well as in Japan
- Administrative
organizations and self-governing body
- Educational institutions and research institutions.
Transportation
Accessibility Law:
Yoshi
Kawauchi writes from Japan about their new “Transportation Accessibility
Improvement Law”. Kawauchi has been a frequent critic of the
transportation system and the overall ‘welfare’ attitude that
precludes any understanding of an individual’s right to accessibility
and inclusion. He appreciates that the law now exists, but explains some
of his concerns and the limits of the legislation that was passed in the
spring of 2000. He says, “It is the beginning of beginning”.
Kawauchi
continues,”This law requires public transportation operators to make
their facilities accessible if it is new construction or major renovation,
and to make efforts (note 1) to make their existing facilities accessible.
The
local governments like cities or towns CAN (note 2) designate an
Improvement Priority Area and they CAN make improvement plan for this
area. There must be public transportation facilities at the core of this
area. And once this improvement plan is made, public transportation
operators need to improve the accessibility of their existing facilities.
As
a grass roots activist, I appreciate this law as the first step of
improvement. We have not had an accessibility law on public
transportation. So it is the
beginning of beginning. We need to utilize this law to change our society.
However, I criticize this law because it is NOT a civil rights law.
It just mentions the procedure to make facilities accessible
without saying WHY. So this law has no procedure for consumers to file
complaint.
It
does not include taxicabs because of the political pressure.
It does not cover people with developmental disabilities and
psychiatric disabilities. Our government said they did not know the needs
of those people. Because they did not know the needs, they said, they had
no way to improve it. One blind leader who had been regarded as being very
discriminatory to those people objected to include those people in this
law. And ruling parties and government took his discriminatory opinion and
said that we shouldn’t include those people in this law because there
are objections from community of people with disabilities.
The
Ministry of Transport has explained it in English on their web site at:
http://www.motnet.go.jp/koho00/barrier.htm
http://www.motnet.go.jp/koho00/GRAPHICS/barrier1.pdf
Note
1: “making efforts” does not require them to make changes. It allows
them to make excuses, “Although we made much efforts, we couldn’t do
that” (Editor’s note: this is similar to the ‘readily achievable’
standard for existing facilities under the ADA, Title III).
Note
2: It depends on the pressure by the community.
Yoshi Kawauchi can be reached at: BZH15277@nifty.ne.jp.
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UNITED
STATES
Access
to Design Professions: Architects Make News
Two
architects who were part of the initial research conducted by Daniel
Hunter for the Access to Design Professions Project were profiled in an
article in the September Architectural Record. Joe DelVecchio of
Providence, RI and Robert Nichols of Washington, DC explain the ways that
technology has made their careers possible. The article was in both the
print and electronic issues of the magazine and can be read at:
<http://www.archrecord.com/DIGITAL/DA_ARTIC/DA9_00.ASP>
For
information on the project, contact Elaine Ostroff, Project Director.
Frank
Bowe: Universal Design in Education
Frank
Bowe has written a unique and extremely useful book for all teachers.
The following is an excerpt from Dr. Bowe’s website and his
description of the new book: Just published (late September, 2000) from
Bergin & Garvey (Greenwood
Publishing Group) is a handbook for teachers and professors who have, each
year, one or a few students who have disabilities, who are older, who come
from different cultures, or in some other way are nontraditional in K-12,
adult/continuing, or higher education.
To
date, educators expected students to make accommodations. Thus, at
colleges and universities, deaf students would request or arrange for
interpreters, blind students would bring to class tape recorders and/or
Braille notetakers, et cetera. Hofstra
has made such accommodations for thousands of students since at least
1960. I am glad we have.
However,
accommodations have two (2) important drawbacks. First, they tend to be expensive. If, for example, an interpreter translates a lecture so that
I can understand it, he or she bills us on a per-hour basis.
This service makes that lecture accessible to me—that time.
Once the interpreter walks out of the room, the accessibility is
lost—forever. The next
semester, Hofstra may have to do it all over again.
Second,
accommodations fail to take advantage of the simple fact that today
teachers and professors routinely prepare these lectures in ways that are
inherently accessible. I
write each of my lectures, as well as my articles, chapters and books, on
a PC. I save the work to
disk. I am doing these things
anyway. I can easily give
disks to students who have learning disabilities or are blind.
These students can listen to the lectures at home, through speech
synthesizers connected to their PCs.
I
can also give the disks to students who are deaf or hard-of-hearing.
These students can review the lectures at leisure, taking advantage
of word-processing software features such as dictionaries and synonym
finders. For deaf or
hard-of-hearing students, the complete lecture is far better than are
scribbled notes from a classmate, or even from a professional notetaker.
Cost
of these accommodations: a few dimes.
If a student comes unexpectedly to me later in the semester (“I
didn’t want to mention it, but ....”), I can give that student the
lecture on disk, again for a couple dimes.
Try doing that via traditional accommodations.
We
call this approach universal design.
It was pioneered, in architecture and engineering, by the Center
for Universal Design, North Carolina State University.
(I am on its advisory board.)
What I have done in UNIVERSAL DESIGN IN EDUCATION is to apply these
principles to education.
By
adopting universal design principles, educators can (a) easily and
effectively respond to most special needs of diverse students, including
people with disabilities, senior citizens, and persons from nontraditional
cultures and (b) save money.
In
universal design, the teacher/professor designs the course and materials
(including not only readings but also recommended internet resources) so
that these are as accessible to and usable by a wide variety of students
as is feasible. Take, as an
illustration, Stephen King’s electronically published short story that
created great excitement in March, 2000.
This 60-page short story was already accessible, the moment it was
published, for people who are blind or have dyslexia.
No accommodations were needed, then or later.
There
are many, many other illustrations of how universal design may be applied
to education. This handbook summarizes these and offers resources,
including Web links’.
Go
to his web page where you will see a variety of places, including online
places, to get the book. Some of those offer 20% off the regular price.
The address is: < http://people.hofstra.edu/faculty/frank_g_bowe>
and click on Universal Design in Education.
Center
for Universal Design: Online Course in
Universal Design
Molly
Follette Story, M.S. will teach this online course that begins in January.
The
course is limited to 20 people so if interested we suggest that you
register as soon as possible. Full information is available at:
<http://distance.ncsu.edu/infofacts/i-id492c.htm>
Information
about registering for the course is included at the bottom of the web
page. Here are a few excerpts from the NC State website:
COURSE
DESCRIPTION
This
is an Internet-based introductory course on universal design and is
appropriate for a broad audience. The purpose of the course is to give
students a basic understanding of the concepts and Principles of Universal
Design, and the benefits of the design approach for people with
disabilities and for all individuals. Students will be introduced to the
history of universal design, the broad range of human abilities, and
numerous real-world examples of designs that satisfy the Principles. The
course is based on and taught from the book, co-authored by the course
instructor, titled “The Universal Design File:
CREDIT(S):Three
semester credit hours.
PREREQUISITE(S):None.
INSTRUCTOR’S
BIO:
Molly Follette Story is the Director of Research and Development at The
Center for Universal Design and a Research Associate Professor in the
Industrial Design Department in the School of Design. Since 1984, she has
taught numerous design studio courses at the Georgia Institute of
Technology and N.C. State University focusing on universal design and
design for older adults and individuals with disabilities.
E-MAIL
ADDRESS: molly_story@ncsu.edu
AUDIENCE:
This course is suitable for any student interested in the design of
products or environments and the ways in which diverse populations
interact with them.
COURSE
REQUIREMENTS:
Students in this course will be expected to read lectures on the Internet,
to participate in Online discussions (both submit and respond to
questions and comments from the teacher and other members of the class),
to go out into their communities to meet people and conduct design
critiques, and to write reports of their experiences. The course will be
taught completely asynchronously, but participation will be required every
week of the semester.
Distance
Education is a good learning vehicle for you if:
- You
are a self-motivated learner;
- You
have a basic knowledge of e-mail and accessing the Internet (or are
willing to take time to learn);
- You
are comfortable using the computer for communicating your thoughts and
ideas (or are willing to take time to learn);
- You
can commit to “virtually” attending class every week (you can log
on whenever you want, but you will have deadlines);
- You
are willing to take responsibility for your own learning (in other
words, you are willing to ask questions!).
(Accommodations
can be made for individual students if needed. Contact the instructor for
more information.)
Pattie
Moore: IDSA Awards
Pattie
Moore was the Chair of the 2000 Industrial Design Excellence Awards
program, and has made just a few comments on some of the 2000 winners- to
intrigue you to go to the IDSA website to see the gallery of extraordinary
products. http://www.idsa.org/ is where
you can see the 2000 winners and also learn more about the 2001
competition.
The
IDSA Awards Competition, in partnership with BusinessWeek has evolved into
a global showcase with more than 1,200 entries last year.
Pattie
said, “SMART Design [NYC] didn’t disappoint!
This year’s Gold winner is a wonderful manual juice squeezer,
“OrangeX Ojex” which looks like a sculpture and will enhance any
kitchen countertop. The juicer incorporates ideas from the assembly-line
employees in South America.
>From
anther juror, Leslie Speer, IDSA, we read, “Great story! This is a
perfect example of a successful marriage of design, business and
manufacturing. The ID profession keeps talking about global business,
global collaboration and global design. This is the baseline from which we
all should start. A heart-warming story that deserves more attention.”
More
from Pattie, “Johnson & Johnson, yes the baby people, has started a
new division dedicated to producing assistive technologies.
Their first offering, “Independence 3000 Personal Transporter”,
also won a Gold in the Concept Section.
The feds are holding up its release, but many of your readers
already saw it on NBC Dateline last Summer.
I’ve been working on this project for the last five years...very
exciting. This chair actually
climbs stairs, stands, and will allow employers who cannot remodel their
buildings to hire someone and give them this chair at work!
That’s an understatement really...it is the first in the next
generation of technological advances for mobility!
The
“Eclipse” Gasoline Dispenser also won a Gold.
Designed by Herbst, LaZar, Bell [Chicago], it reinvents the
traditional gas pump as a direct, efficient, and user-friendly interface,
while giving the environment a gift with its environmental sculpture
appeal. Outstanding!
Herman
Miller didn’t disappoint...this year, a Silver Award for the “Levity
Collection”...work stations which adjust with fingertip pressure to meet
the individual needs of users...standing/sitting...sublime!
Home
Health opportunities were greatly advance last year with the introduction
of thoughtful and sensitive solutions for many chronic care situations
which we can now attend in our own homes thanks to design! My favorite, Immunex’s “Mixing Station and Syringe
Components” which address the needs for injection patients dealing with
low vision, dexterity and strength issues, and provides them with a
direct, simplified, friendly, enhancement system that will bolster ability
and quality of life.
Black
& Decker was recognized for its continuing great work in home tools,
with a Gold for the “Mouse Sander”.
Martha is sure to say this is a good thing!
Its simple and direct human interface makes craft and home
improvement projects a delight for consumers of all abilities!
The
2001 Awards program is now inviting entries that must be submitted by
February 12, 2001. The international competition welcomes submissions
worldwide.
Any
US citizen can enter; non-residents can enter if the entry is for
distribution in the US; students must attend a US school. The IDSA 2001
criteria of excellence are: Design innovation; Benefits to the user,
including performance, comfort, safety, ease of use, and universal
function and access;
Benefits
to the client, including increased sales and market penetration, plus
reduced time to market or to manufacture; ecologically responsible use of
materials and processes throughout life cycle, including source and waste
reduction, energy efficiency, and repair/reuse/recyclability; and
Appropriate aesthetics. You can order the Entry Kit through the website or
find contact information for phone, fax, and mail.
James
Joseph Pirkl: Transgenerational House
Developing
an adaptive residential environment, which provides and extends
independent living for aging consumers and others with physical and
sensory limitations, is the goal of distinguished industrial designer and
author, James Joseph Pirkl FIDSA. He and his team are building and
equipping a Transgenerational House designed for a lifetime of living.
Aimed directly at the needs of aging consumers, it offers a unique vehicle
for broadening consumer awareness of, and demand for, age-friendly
products.
With
completion planned for late Fall 2000 in Placitas, New Mexico, the
Transgenerational House will showcase a wide range of off-the-shelf,
cutting-edge architectural components, appliances, fixtures, products and
systems designed transgenerational design, a term Pirkl coined over a
decade ago. The goal is to
demonstrate to accommodate the widest spectrum of ages and abilities—the
essence of how Transgenerational design can extend independent living for
millions of aging Americans—a number destined to increase dramatically
as the Baby Boom generation ages toward retirement.
“The
Transgenerational House,” Pirkl says, “is designed to remove
residential barriers, extend independent living, provide wider options,
offer greater choices, and enhance the quality of life for all—the
young, the old, the able, the disabled—without penalty to any group.
While addressing those physical or sensory impairments that frequently
occur during our later adult years—such as arthritis, declining
eyesight, poor hearing, heart disease and stroke—the Transgenerational
House also advances the frontier of accessibility beyond the conventional
boundaries of the ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act), accommodating
those temporary disabilities that most of us acquire throughout our life
span—such as falls, sprains, burns, broken bones, and pregnancy—which
also limit our activities and curtail our independence.”
“It
does so,” Pirkl explains, “by integrating human-sensitive
architecture, with high-tech appliances, fixtures, products and
communications designed for safety, comfort, convenience, accessibility,
clean-ability, adjust-ability, ease of use, and bodily fit—
transgenerational features that neutralize the aging process.”
Examples
of such features are flat thresholds at entrances, wider doors and
passageways, accessible drawers and cupboards, dual-height kitchen and
bath components, easy-to-read controls, task lighting, non-glare and
non-slip floors, etc.
The
house will also feature environmentally friendly building materials and
techniques that minimize its impact on the land, on natural resources, and
on people with environmental sensitivities or allergies.
Pirkl
is professor emeritus and former chair of Syracuse University’s
department of design and principal of James Joseph Pirkl /
Transgenerational Design. Acknowledged
as a key figure in the field of “universal” design, his work is
reported and he is quoted in such national media as the Wall Street
Journal, New York Times, and a variety of media and TV outlets. He is an
occasional guest on National Public Radio. For more information contact
Jim Pirkl at:
Evan
Terry Associates, P.C. Job Opportunities
Evan
Terry Associates, P.C. is an architectural firm committed to the
“Universal Design” concept for facilities accessibility. Since 1990 we
have concentrated a significant portion of our resources on the study and
application of the facilities and program access requirements of the
Americans with Disabilities Act and many of the stricter state
requirements. We have developed methods and materials for assisting clients
in complying with the ADA and state standards and have a national
reputation for technical expertise in this area. See our website for more
information: www.evanterry.com.
POSITION:
ADA Facilities Compliance Specialist
Job
Description: This specialist will review floor plans for compliance,
physically survey facilities using Evan Terry Associates’ systems to
identify barriers to people with disabilities, prepare barrier-removal
reports, and conduct follow-up inspections of barrier-removal efforts. He/she will develop specialties in access for specific
facility types and consult with clients nationwide on their compliance
programs. This person will also apply his/her understanding of the needs
of people with disabilities to develop universal design solutions for ADA
projects as well as to architectural and product design assignments. This
is a full-time position that requires some travel.
Qualifications:
Registered architect, facilities manager, or someone with architectural
knowledge and detailed knowledge of ADA technical requirements. Practical
experience with persons with various disabilities very helpful. Knowledge
of various state accessibility standards also helpful. Ability to travel.
Salary:
Based on knowledge, ADA expertise, and experience.
POSITION:
ADA Facilities Compliance Intern
Job
Description: The ADA intern will accept training and become fully
knowledgeable in ADA compliance work in preparation for becoming an ADA
Facilities Compliance/Universal Design Specialist. Full or part-time
position that will require travel.
Qualifications:
Architecture, building science, or design school graduate, or anyone who
has a keen interest in learning ADA facilities compliance work. Practical
experience with persons with disabilities very helpful.
Knowledge of various state access standards also very helpful.
Ability to locate in Birmingham.
Salary:
Negotiable.
For
more information: 205) 972-9101 phone (205) 972-9110 fax
US
Access Board Updates: Children’s Play Guidelines, IEQ
On
October 18, 2000, the Access Board published accessibility guidelines for
newly built or altered play areas under the Americans with Disabilities
Act (ADA) of 1990, a comprehensive civil rights law that prohibits
discrimination based on a person’s disability.
The new guidelines specify the minimum level of accessibility
required in the construction and alteration of play areas covered by the
ADA. The rule, as published
in the Federal Register, provides scoping requirements, which indicate
what is to be accessible, and technical requirements, which explain how to
achieve access. The guidelines cover play areas provided at schools,
parks, child care facilities (except those based in the operator’s home,
which are exempt), and other facilities subject to the ADA.
Under
the ADA, the Access Board develops and maintains accessibility guidelines
for the built environment and transportation vehicles known as the ADA
Accessibility Guidelines (ADAAG). The
published rule supplements ADAAG by adding a new chapter on play areas.
The guidelines for play areas are one of the first of their kind in
providing a comprehensive set of criteria for access to play areas.
They cover the number of play components required to be accessible,
accessible surfacing in play areas, ramp and transfer system access to
elevated structures, and access to soft contained play structures.
The
new guidelines as issued by the Board are not mandatory on the public.
Instead, they set the minimum baseline for enforceable ADA
standards maintained by the Department of Justice (DOJ).
The requirements will become mandatory when DOJ incorporates them
into its ADA standards, which are required to be consistent with the
Board’s guidelines. In the
interim, the public may consult the new guidelines as a reference in
providing access to playgrounds and play equipment.
For
further information or a copy of the guidelines, visit the Board’s web
site at http://www.access-board.gov/news/playrule.htm.
Copies also can be ordered by calling the Board’s publication
line at (800) 872-2253 (voice) or (800) 993-2822 (TTY) and requesting
publication S-39.
ACCESS
BOARD and IEQ AND ENVIRONMENTAL
The
following information was excerpted from a press release from Mary
Lamielle.
On
September 13 the U.S. Access Board approved funding for an Indoor
Environmental Air Quality (IEQ) project for the new fiscal year beginning
October 1, 2000. The Board
also requested additional funds for the following year to hire an
environmental engineer to work on indoor access issues and chemical
sensitivities.
Several
weeks earlier on August 23 during the initial meeting of the Access
Board’s Ad Hoc Committee on MCS and representatives of the MCS
community, the Board also
committed to issuing a Technical Guidance Bulletin
on MCS.
The
goal of the research project, according to the concept paper approved by
the board, is to “provide more access for people with a variety of
disabilities affected by IEQ (people with multiple chemical sensitivities,
asthma and other respiratory conditions, immune system disorders,
neurological disabilities, etc.) as well as make the indoor environment
healthier for everyone.”
The
project is intended to develop an action plan to reduce the level of toxic
chemicals and biological agents in the indoor environment through building
design and construction including building products and materials.
The project will involve representatives from building design and
construction, disability agencies and organizations, and the MCS community
for whom “poor IEQ is a significant barrier.”
The
action plan calls for a series of reports on building design and
construction over 2-5 years
which will result in an action plan.
Possible examples include ways to lower volatile organic compounds
(VOC’s), to provide cleaner air zones within public buildings, or to
increase knowledge and understanding of environmental barriers.
Meanwhile
the Access Board has begun a dialog with representatives from the MCS
community. On August 23 the
Access Board’s Ad Hoc Committee on MCS, which includes several board
members and staff, held an initial meeting with MCS advocates: Mary Lamielle, National Center for Environmental Health
Strategies; Susan Molloy, Disability Advocate; Ann McCampbell, MCS Task
Force of New Mexico; Larry Plumlee, National Coalition of the Chemically
Injured; Barbara Wilkie,
Environmental Health Network of California; and Toni Temple, Ohio Network
for the Chemically Injured.
For
more information, please contact Mary Lamielle, National Center for
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Designing
for the 21st
Century II, An International Conference on
Universal
Design
June
14-18, 2000
Bob
Cooper, Executive Secretary of the RI Governors Commission organized a
tour of recreation facilities in RI. This included parks, a baseball
stadium, boating and hiking. You can see photos of the daylong tour here: http://www.gcd.state.ri.us.
Reports on Working Group sessions, the Educator’s Forum and other follow-up information will be included in future issues.
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Global
Universal Design Educator’s Network NEW e-mail
list
The
Trace Center has agreed to host the email list. They host over a dozen
lists and have a good, working system. Note that the email list and the
Online News are two distinct features. The list is interactive, unlike the
Online News that you receive monthly. If you want to be part of an
interactive e-mail exchange with other people who are interested in
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CALENDAR
December
3-6, 2000: Doors
to Inclusion, Baton Rouge, LA. Sponsored by the
December
4-5, 2000: Autonomy and Accessibility, Lisbon, Portugal. Promoted by
the Social Affairs of the Lisbon City Council. Contact: Jorge Falcato,
<jfalcato@cm-lisboa.pt>.
December
14-16, 2000: Accessibility and the Arts, Oakland, CA. Hosted by the
Western States Arts Federation. See: <http://www.westaf.org>
or call 303 629 1166.
December
15, 2000: SDS Proposals due for conference to be held June 2001 (see
below). Information at: <http://www.uic.edu/orgs/sds/>.
December
31, 2000: International Association of Gerontology; submissions due
for Conference in July, 2001 (see below).
Here
is the link to the First Announcement/Call for Papers to view or print all
December
31, 2000: Include: Innovation through inclusive design and
communication, submissions due for conference in April 2000 (see below).
March
19-24, 2001: CSUN’s 16th Annual International Conference,
“Technology
April
18-20, 2001: Include: Innovation through inclusive design and
communication, at the Royal College of Art, London. Organized by the Helen
Hamlyn Research Center in collaboration with the Contemporary Trends
Institute.
See
calls for participation at:
May
3-5, 2001: The Child’s Right to Play: A Global Approach, in
Hempstead, NY.
Hofstra
Cultural Center, Hofstra University in cooperation with the American
Association of the Child’s Right to Play (IPA/USA). See http://www.hofstra.edu/play
and http://ipausa.org or email to: < HOFCULTR@Hofstra.edu>.
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 November 3, 2000. See: <http://www.ccrw.org>
or contact <ktoupin@ccrw.org>.
June
21-24, 2001: Democracy, Diversity & Disability in Winnipeg,
Canada.
Information at: http://www.uic.edu/orgs/sds/.
July
1-6,2001: International Association of Gerontology: 17th
Congress in
September
12-14, 2001: International Conference on Technology and Aging in
October 19-20, 2001: Integrating Differences: Theories and Applications of Universal Design in New York City, Fashion Institute of Technology. For guidelines for submissions, see: http://www.fitnyc.suny.edu/USD.html>, contact Dr. Desiree Koslin, at koslinde@fitsuny.edu, or fax 212.217.7910.
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