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Adaptive Environments

Adaptive Environments is a Boston-based educational non-profit founded in 1978 dedicated to making places and things work seamlessly and well for everyone, across variation in ability and age. Its founding premise was that design and designers are instruments of that mission. Adaptive Environments offers educational programs, technical assistance, training, consultation, publications, and design advocacy.

Adaptive Environments' work is project-based and the target audience varies from local to regional, national, and international. Adaptive Environments is the lead sponsor of Designing for the 21st Century, an International Conference on Universal Design. It is home to the federally funded (U.S. Department of Education's National Institute for Disability Rehabilitation Research) New England ADA and Accessible Information Technology Center.

For more information about Adaptive Environments call: (617) 695-1225 or visit their website, www.AdaptiveEnvironments.org

RISD

Founded in 1877, Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) has earned a worldwide reputation as the preeminent art and design college in the country. Throughout 2002-03, the college is celebrating its 125th anniversary. Today, with more than 16,000 alumni, the college enrolls approximately 1,800 undergraduates and 275 graduate students from the United States and more than 47 countries, offering degree programs in the fine arts, architecture and design disciplines and art education.

Academic programs include research and design initiatives, the exploration of art criticism and contemporary cultural concerns as well as international exchange programs. Each year, RISD hosts prominent and accomplished artists, critics and authors to its campus.

For more information on the college and its programs, as well as The RISD Museum, call: 401-454-6100 or visit RISD's Web site at www.risd.edu.

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