Environments for Aging 09, March 29 - 31, 2009. Boston, MA.

Disability Studies Conference, 26 -27 June 2009. Sydney, Australia.

The overarching aim of the conference will be to bring together, for the first time, people from the disability studies academia, students and members of the disability community to discuss in the context of the new United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities developments towards a national disability studies agenda. 

Mainstreet National Conference, 15 -18 March 2009. Fremantle, Western Australia.

The conference theme, Rediscovering the Heart, invites speakers and
attendees to explore why mainstreets are again becoming the heart and
soul of city and town centres across Australia. This rediscovery is
having a major influence on the direction our city and town centres are
heading in and whether they are responding positively to change and
embracing future trends.

 ISA International Housing Conference, 1 - 4 September 2009. Glasgow

The key theme of the conference is to engage with the current turbulence in the housing finance credit markets and ask what this means for housing outcomes, opportunities and policy-making at different spatial scales (the neighbourhood, city, nation and different international regions), both now and in the future. What does this mean for the role of housing within modern capitalist economies and

Maison a Bordeaux is Laureate Rem Koolhaas' Pritzker Prize winning home design.

Universal Housing, Universal Benefits is about the provision of appropriate, whole-of- life housing that is accessible to and meets the future needs of all Victorians.
Universal housing is housing designed to be used by all people to the greatest extent possible. Homes designed to a universal standard are liveable for the majority of the population and accommodate whatever comes along in life easily and inexpensively.

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Name: Universal Design for you

Content:  Seattle based Interior Designer Joyce Joneschiet uses her blog to showcase products, articles and designers that offer inspiring and empowering options for her clients.

http://www.universaldesignforyou.com/

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Aging in America, the 2009 Annual Conference of the American Society on Aging and the National Council on Aging takes place March 15-19 in Las Vegas. The ASA-NCOA Conference, with nearly 4,000 attendees, is recognized as a showcase for programs and projects that can be replicated, a forum for policy discussion and advocacy, and a prime source of information on new research findings in aging. It is the largest gathering of a diverse, multidisciplinary community of professionals from the fields of aging, healthcare and education, along with business leaders from

Inclusive design into innovation: transforming practice in design, research and business

Include 2009 builds on the previous four Include conferences by exploring how inclusive design practice in design, research and business can lead towards innovation in people centred design.

The programme for Include 2009 will comprise a series of professional designer workshops, design debates, paper and poster presentations on the theme of Inclusive design into innovation: transforming practice in design, research and business.

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