ANUHD - Homes for Living
Universal design is the design of products, services and environments to be useable by everyone regardless of age or ability.
Links - Universal Design Organisations
Adaptive Environments: Human Centred Design - USA
Adaptive Environments (AE) is a 29 year old international non-profit
organization, based in Boston, committed to advancing the role of
design in expanding opportunity and enhancing experience for people of
all ages and abilities. AE’s work balances expertise in legally
required accessibility with promotion of best practices in
human-centered or universal design.
http://www.adaptiveenvironments.org/index.php?option=Content&Itemid=1
Centre for Accessible Environments - UK
The Centre for Accessible Environments (CAE) is the UK's leading
authority on inclusive design. We aim to help secure a built
environment that is usable by everyone, including disabled and older
people. CAE pioneered the provision of access guidance for building
designers based on collaborative research with disabled people. CAE is
a leader in developing the case for designing for disabled people in
the context of mainstream inclusive design. A registered charity, CAE
has been the leading authority and resource in the UK, for over 30
years, on inclusive design and access to the built environment for
disabled and older people.
Centre for Universal Design - N.C. USA
The Center for Universal Design (CUD) is a national information,
technical assistance, and research center that evaluates, develops, and
promotes accessible and universal design in housing, commercial and
public facilities, outdoor environments, and products. Our mission is
to improve environments and products through design innovation, research, education and design assistance.
http://www.design.ncsu.edu/cud/
ECA: European Concept for Accessibility - EU
The fundamental basis of a European philosophy for accessibility is the recognition, acceptance and fostering - at all levels in society - of the rights of all human beings, including people with activity limitations ..... in an ensured context of high human health, safety, comfort and environmental protection. Accessibility - for all - is an essential attribute of a 'person-centred', sustainable built environment.
http://www.eca.lu/
European Institute for Design & Disability - EU
The aim of EIDD is to encourage active interaction and communication
between professionals interested in the theory and practise of Design
for All and to build bridges between, on the one hand, these and other
members of the design community and, on the other hand, all those other
communities where Design for All can make a real difference to the quality of life for everyone.
http://www.designforalleurope.org
Global Universal Design Commission Inc - USA
GUDC is a not-for-profit corporation established With support from the public and private sectors to increase the understanding and use of universal design (UD) to change the world in which we live through the design and development of buildings, products, and environments to be useable by all people, to the greatest extent possible, without the need for adaptation, retrofitting, or specialized design.
http://www.globaluniversaldesign.org
Helen Hamlyn Centre - UK
The Royal College of Art Helen Hamlyn Centre provides a focus for
people-centred design and innovation at the RCA in London, the world's
only wholly postgraduate university institution of art and design.
Today, its multi-disciplinary team of designers, engineers, architects and
anthropologists undertake practical research and projects with industry.
http://www.hhc.rca.ac.uk/193/all/1/about_us.aspx
The Independent Living Institute - Sweden
is a policy development center specializing in consumer-driven
policies for disabled peoples' self-determination, self-respect and
dignity.
This Swedish based website has a number of resources for advocacy and
self-help organisations, as well as lots of resources, discussion
forums, and reviews.
Home Modification Information Clearing House - Australia
"Grabrails and more"
Gathering, collating, summarising, analysing and disseminating home modification information.http://www.homemods.info http://www.homemods.info/resource/bibliography
Ricability - UK
Ricability is the trading name of the Research Institute for Consumer Affairs (RICA). We are a national research charity dedicated to providing independent information of value to disabled and older consumers.
Under our trading name of Ricability, we research and publish consumer reports. They are all based on rigorous research and provide practical information needed by disabled and older consumers.
As the Research Institute for Consumer Affairs we also work with manufacturers, service providers, regulators and policy makers to improve products and services. Our aim is to increase their awareness of the needs of disabled and older consumers through specialist research.
http://www.ricability.org.uk
TRIL: Technology Research for Independent Living - UK
The TRIL Centre is a coordinated collection of research projects
addressing the physical, cognitive and social consequences of ageing,
all informed by ethnographic research and supported by a shared pool of
knowledge and
engineering resources.
http://www.trilcentre.org/