A conference on "Universal Design", called "INTEGRATING DIFFERENCES,
THEORIES AND APPLICATIONS OF UNIVERSAL DESIGN", will be held on the
campus of the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City, which is
part of SUNY, the State University of New York.
Dates: Friday & Saturday, October 19 & 20, 2001
Address: Seventh Ave. at 27th Street, in Manhattan, New York City.
(5 short blocks south of N. Y. Penn Station, whose expansion in a more
accessible manner is the topic of my lecture).
I will be presenting a slide-lecture called "THE ROLE OF DISABLED
COMMUNITY-BASED PUBLIC INPUT, IN UNIVERSAL DESIGN". (The slides will be
verbally described, I'll mix in some large-type written titles, and some
of the graphic material will also be in the form of prints passed
around.) As I always do, I will place universal design in the political
& historic context of the disabled rights movement. Which day & what
time my lecture will be, is yet to be determined.
The conference information will be on FIT's web site www.fitsuny.edu
by mid to late April. For information on registration & accessibility,
contact Celia Baez, Office of Academic Affairs, 212--217--7456, e-mail
[log in to unmask] Snail mail to:- Office of Academic Affairs, FIT /
SUNY, 7th Ave, at 27th St., NY, NY 10001, USA.
Also, on Thursday Oct. 18, the day before the conference, there will be
field trips to sites in New York relating to universal design.
Airports: The most convenient airport is Newark ("NWK") across the
river from NYC, which connects by a very short bus ride to the Newark
Penn Station (not to be confused with New York's Penn Station), where
the NJ Transit train provides a short, maybe 15 minute, fully accessible
ride to N.Y. Penn Station in Manhattan, which is just 5 minutes from the
conference site. Hotels in Newark may be cheaper than in New York, too.
("JFK" airport in NYC is famously congested, and is far from Manhattan
in terms of transit -- which is why the leading airport for NYC is
actually Newark, "NWK", in New Jersey, across the Hudson River.)
If anyone from this list plans to attend this conference, feel free to
write in advance.
Jim Davis
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