Adaptive Environments
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Ostroff, Elaine
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content: Elaine Ostroff Universal Design Papers
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content: 1978 - 2009
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content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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content: NMAH.AC.1356, Series 4
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content: Archival materials
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content: Ostroff cofounded Adaptive Environments in 1978. It is now called the Institute for Human Centered Design. In 1989 she developed the Universal Design Education Project (UDEP) at Adaptive Environments, a national project with design educators that has become an international model for educating about universal design. 

The series documents Adaptive Environment's work, especially the Access to Design Professions Project, a program established to honor Ron Mace (1941-1998) FAIA, the founder and program director of the Center for Universal Design.  Daniel Hunter, landscape architect, was the project research associate. The project encouraged the participation of people with disabilities in the design professions in order to strengthen the practice of universal design.  Also included are materials related to Building Careers in Design, a national web-based technical assistance and training project that addressed needs identified in Access to Design Profession's initial research with designers with disabilities. 

The materials consist of correspondence, emails, memoranda, reports, proposals, and printed slides for power point presentations.