Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Elaine Ostroff Universal Design Papers
Ostroff, Elaine
NMAH.AC.1356
Archival Resource Key
16 Cubic feet
37 boxes, 1 oversize folder
1965 - 2009
Collection documents activist and educator Elaine Ostroff who advocated for improved access for people with disabilities in public places, co-founded the Adaptive Environments Center and who taught universal design in several institutions.
Collection is in English. Some materials in German, Japanese, Spanish, and Taiwanese.
Arrangement
The collection is arranged into seven series. The arrangement follows Ms. Ostroff's original file order which for the most part has been retained.
Series 1: Personal/Biographical Materials, 1967-2008
Series 2: Subject Files, 1965-2008
Series 3: Universal Design Education Project (UDEP) Files, 1993-2008 (bulk 1993-1998)
Series 4: Adaptive Environments, 1978-2009
Series 5: Japan, 1996-1999
Series 6: Photographs and Slides, 1971-2002
Series 7: Audiovisual Materials, 1974-2004
Preferred Citation
Elaine Ostroff Universal Design Papers, 1965-2009, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Biographical Note
Elaine Phillips Ostroff was born on February 27, 1933 and grew up in Fall River, Massachusetts. She graduated from Durfee High School (1951), received a B.S. from Brandeis University (1955), was awarded a Radcilffe Fellowship (1970) and an Ed.M from Harvard University (1972). In 1978, Ostroff co-founded with Cora Beth Abel the Adaptive Environments Center (now the Institute for Human Centered Design (IHCD) to confront the barriers which prevent persons with disabilities and older people from fully participating in community life. In 1989, with support from the National Endowment for the Arts, she developed the National Universal Design Education Project (UDEP) at Adaptive Environments. A national project, UDEP sought to incorporate universal design in professional curricula. Ostroff coined the term "user/expert" in 1995 to identify individuals whose personal experiences give them unique critical capacity to evaluate environments.
As an educator, Ostroff has been involved with the accessible environments effort on a national and international level since 1971. She was the former director of training for the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health where she developed graduate programs and courses to sustain community based living for people with disabilities. In 1977, she was the United States representative to the United Nations meeting on the Rights of Children.
She convened the national seminar on Design for All People that provided the framework for the UDEP in 1982. In 1986, she developed the "Best of Accessible Boston," an awards program honoring the architects and owners of buildings that exemplified good as well as accessible design. Ostroff is internationally renowned for her role on the team that created the Principles of Universal Design. The Principles are taught to designers including architects, landscape architects, interior and product designers and their students and used in design, constructions and product development. In 2001, she was the senior editor of the "Universal Design Handbook" used as a textbook in educational settings. In 2004, she was the first American, and first woman, to receive the Misha Black Medal from the Royal College of Art. In 2006, the American Institute of Architects awarded her the Honorary AIA designation. Ostroff's experience emphasized creating educational programs for non-designers, facilitating their design advocacy as well as collaboration with design professionals. She has written and produced technical assistance materials on the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) that were used in the National Network for ADA Technical Assistance.
She married Earl Carlton Ostroff (1931-2006) in 1953. The couple had three children, Rebecca, Joshua, and Sam.
Historical Note
The Universal Design Movement is an international effort advocating design for disabled persons to enjoy access, independence, and convenience. It also is known as design-for-all, accessible design, inclusive design, and human-centered design. It is applied to buildings, consumer products, packaging, appliances, tools, and devices. It can aid persons with mobility, visual, hearing, cognitive, developmental, neurological, and other disabilities.
The Universal Design movement has its roots in the disability rights movement, in the post-World War II era. Previously and especially before the First World War people with disabilities were members of a small minority and persons with severe handicaps tended to have short lifespans. The world wars caused a huge influx of disabled veterans into the population. Advances in medicine and drugs and better sanitation enabled increased lifespans resulting in a higher population of older and disabled people. Awareness of the problems and limitations experienced by people with disabilities has increased.
The "Barrier-Free" movement in the 1950s was born of the demands by veterans and their advocates to participate equally in educational and employment opportunities enjoyed by the non-disabled population. The Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s influenced the rising Disability Rights Movement. Legislative changes in the 1960s and 1970s prohibited discrimination against persons with disabilities and mandated access to some, though not all, public spaces, public transit, and places of public accommodation.
The progression from the Barrier-Free movement to the Universal Design movement was aided by several pieces of national legislation and activism on the part of numerous organizations. The Architectural Barriers Act of 1968 required buildings designed, built, altered, or leased with federal funds to be made accessible. Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 was the first civil rights law for disabled people. It prohibited discrimination against people with handicapping conditions, but again, only applied to institutions or groups receiving federal funding. The Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975 required educational institutions to provide a free education to handicapped children. The Fair Housing Amendments Act of 1988 expanded the requirements of the Civil Rights Act of 1968 to include disabled people. This applied to both public and private properties. The biggest change came in 1990 with the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. This broad and sweeping legislation raised public consciousness about disability rights as a civil rights issue. It prohibited discrimination in employment, access to public accommodations, services, programs, public transit, and telecommunications. The law mandated the removal of physical barriers and the development of non-discriminatory policies.
The Universal Design Movement sought to integrate people with disabilities into the mainstream, and to promote inclusion by reducing the physical and social barriers that exist between people with disabilities. As planners, builders and architects struggled to meet the demands of the ADA, they realized that segregated accommodations were costly, unattractive, and unfair. They also realized that improvements in the built environment not only that benefitted people with disabilities, they benefitted all users. According to the Center for Universal Design, "Recognition that many such features could be commonly provided and thus less expensive, unlabeled, attractive, and highly marketable, laid the foundation for the universal design movement."
Against this background, Ostroff's own special interest was improving the environment for people with developmental disabilities. She initially worked with teachers in the Department of Mental Retardation (State of Massachusetts) to help them transform their classrooms into more engaging and supportive environments for young children with disabilities. She was inspired by Gunnar Dybwad (1909-2001), a prominent international international advocate who fought for community living and the de-institutionalization of people with developmental disabilities and Raymond Lifchez (1932-), professor of architecture and city and regional planning at the University of California, Berkeley. She also worked closely with, and learned from, Ron Mace (1941-1998), FAIA, the architect who powered the accessibility movement through his personal experience of disability along with his architectural training and experience.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donated to the Archives Center by Elaine Ostroff in 2015.
Scope and Contents
The papers include correspondence, reports, photographs and slides, course-related materials, evaluations, printed publications, lectures and presentations, grant applications, conference materials, audiovisual materials and newspaper clippings documenting the career of Elaine Ostroff, an activist and educator of universal design.
Related Materials
The Universal Design News is a quarterly publication that Ostroff edited from 2000-2012 and wrote column on international design education. A full run of the newsletter is available the wesbite for Universal Designers and Consultants, Inc.
Materials at the Archives Center
Target Stores Collection of Fashion Advertising Using Disabled Models (AC0436)
Accessible Snowboard Collection (NMAH.AC.0747)
Disability Reference Collection (NMAH.AC.1319)
Safko International, Inc. Records (NMAH.AC.0911)
Harriet Green Kopp Papers (NMAH.AC.1130)
Processing Information
Collection processed by Alison Oswald, archivist, 2016. Additional historical information about the universal design movement contributed by Cathy Keen, archivist, 2016.
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Reference copies for audio and moving images materials do not exist. Use of these materials requires special arrangement. Gloves must be worn when handling unprotected photographs and negatives.
Social Security numbers and other personally identifiable information has been rendered unreadable and redacted. Researchers may use the photocopies in the collection. The remainder of the collection has no restrictions.
Conditions Governing Use
Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
Photographs -- 21st century
Photographs -- 1960-2000
Grant Proposals
Correspondence -- 1960-2000
Videocassettes
Reports -- 21st century
Reports -- 1960-2000
Disabilities
Audiocassettes
Correspondence -- 21st century
Architectural design
Playgrounds
Theater programs -- 1970-1980
Personal/Biographical Materials
Series 1
Archival Resource Key
1967 - 2008
Scope and Contents
This series consists of biographical materials about Elaine Ostroff, namely resumes, awards, book proposals, and interview transcripts.
The Looking Glass Theatre (LGT) materials document a children's theatre company founded in 1962 in Providence, Rhode Island by Elaine Ostroff. LGT was created to be a participatory touring company of adults that presented original plays designed to engage young audiences. The theatre later expanded to include the Summer Street Theatre, Let's Pretend, a creative dramatics series that was performed in libraries throughout Rhode Island, The Workshop School, The Saturday Workshop Company, and the In-School Workshops and Consultant Service. The first performance was The Story of Ferdinand performed in the round, close to the audience at Brown University. Some past productions include The Reluctant Dragon, The Sky is Falling, Canterbury Tales, and the Legend of Sleepy Hollow. LGT incorporated in Rhode Island as a non-profit organization dedicated to educational theatre, and it was the first children's theatre company to receive Title III funds under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act passed by Congress in 1965. The materials consist of notes, proposals, correspondence, brochures and fliers, play programs, budget data, sketches for costumes, scripts, evaluations, photographs, and newspaper clippings.
Resumes
Archival Resource Key
1975 - 1977
1
1
Radcliffe Institute
Archival Resource Key
1967 - 1968
1
2
Harvard University, application statement of purpose
Archival Resource Key
1970 January
7
6
Brandeis University, reunion materials for Class of 1975
Archival Resource Key
1980 May 23-25
1
3
"Interest" file (birthday cards and photographs)
Archival Resource Key
1983 - 1983
1997 - 1997
1988
1
4
1
Photographs (Emily)
Archival Resource Key
1988
1
5
Awards
Archival Resource Key
1999 - 1999
1982
1
6
Sir Misha Black Award
Archival Resource Key
2004
1
7
Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
2006 - 2008
2001
1
8
Elaine Ostroff interview at Wheaton College (transcript)
Archival Resource Key
undated
1
9
Elaine Ostroff interview at Worcester [College?] (transcript)
Archival Resource Key
undated
1
10
Elaine Ostroff interview (transcript)
Archival Resource Key
undated
1
11
Book and grant proposals
Archival Resource Key
1978 - 1979
1
12
Book proposal idea and notes
Archival Resource Key
1982
1
13
Looking Glass Theatre, background information
Archival Resource Key
1967 - 1968
1
14
Looking Glass Theatre, background information
Looking Glass Theatre (photographs, publicity, brochures)
Archival Resource Key
1967 - 1971
1
15
Looking Glass Theatre (photographs, publicity, brochures)
Street Theatre Block Party (contact sheets)
Archival Resource Key
1969 August
1
16
Looking Glass Theatre (photographs)
Archival Resource Key
circa 1970s
1
17
Looking Glass Theatre (photographs)
Looking Glass Theatre (proposals and evaluations)
Archival Resource Key
1967 - 1970
2
1
Looking Glass Theatre (newspaper clippings and articles)
Archival Resource Key
1967 - 1975
2
2
Looking Glass Theatre (scripts for The Story of Ferdinand and Billy and the World)
Archival Resource Key
undated
2
3
Looking Glass Theatre (scripts for Philiponio's Balloon, Androcles the Lion and Winnie the Pooh)
Archival Resource Key
circa 1960s
2
4
Looking Glass Theatre (child drama)
Archival Resource Key
undated
2
5
Looking Glass Theatre (Playhouse in the Park proposal)
Archival Resource Key
1968
2
6
Looking Glass Theatre (Cosa de Bimbi)
Archival Resource Key
circa 1960s
2
7
Looking Glass Theatre (income and expenses)
Archival Resource Key
1975 - 1975
2
8
Looking Glass Theatre, chart
Archival Resource Key
undated
1
Subject Files
Series 2
Archival Resource Key
1965 - 2008
Scope and Contents
This series contains files maintained by Ostroff during the course of her career. Many of the materials relate to her teaching at the Massachusetts College of Art, where she developed the Arts and Human Services, a multidisciplinary graduate program that emphasized the role of designers and artists in creating community based projects for people with disabilities; and an earlier graduate program, "Planning for Play" at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Both projects were funded by the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health through the Western Massachusetts Training Consortium to develop leadership that would support deinstitutionalization. The files contain research notes and papers from students, syllabi, course evaluations, fliers for public programs and performances, teacher workshop materials, agenda and exercises, correspondence, photographs, notes, brochures, university forms, and materials created by others, especially by Ostroff's students, such as course papers.
Ostroff taught many courses through the Arts and Human Services Project, a Manpower Training Program within the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health. Beginning in 1974, the program focused on preparing artists and special educators for leadership roles in education and developing new services for children with severe disabilities and their families. Several programs were developed: Play Laboratories, Resource Centers, After-School Programs, Family Internships, Family Festivals, the Creative Learning Laboratory, and the Creative Play Center. The materials are arranged alphabetically.
Accessible London: Achieving an Inclusive Environment
Archival Resource Key
2003 July
2
9
Accessible text, guidelines
Archival Resource Key
2001 - 2001
1997
2
10
Adventure Playgrounds (articles)
Archival Resource Key
1970
1975 - 1975
2
11
Adventure Playground, City of Huntington Beach, California
Archival Resource Key
1973
2
12
American Adventure Play Association
Archival Resource Key
1977 - 1979
2
13
American Institute of Architecture Students Advisory Council Meeting
Archival Resource Key
2006
2
14
American Diversity and Design, Aging, Design and US Legislation
Archival Resource Key
2008
2
15
Americans with Disabilities Act (fact sheet series)
Archival Resource Key
1992 October
2
16
American Institute of Architects, Diversity Forum, Crossing Lines and Designing Solutions
Archival Resource Key
1997 March 10
2
17
American Institute of Architects (diversity data gathering initiative)
Archival Resource Key
[2004?]
2
18
Architectural Barrier
Archival Resource Key
1960 - 1966
2
19
Architectural Graphic Standards (chapter submission)
Archival Resource Key
undated
2
20
Arts and the Assessment (course evaluations)
Archival Resource Key
1977
2
21
Arts and Human Services Institute (background materials)
Archival Resource Key
1979
3
1
Arts and Human Services Project (See Life Spaces)
Archival Resource Key
1977
3
2
Arts and Human Services Issues Seminar Toward a Sense of Community
Archival Resource Key
1980
3
3
Arts Improvisation Leadership, Massachusetts College of Art (course materials)
Archival Resource Key
1978
3
4
Arts Improvisation Workshop, Massachusetts College of Art (weekly journal)
Archival Resource Key
1977
1
3
5
Arts Improvisation, Massachusetts College of Art
Archival Resource Key
1976
3
6
Arts Improvisation Leadership, Massachusetts College of Art (course materials)
Archival Resource Key
1978
3
7
Art's side tape (Script)
Archival Resource Key
undated
3
8
Association on Higher Education and Disability (AHEAD), AHEAD 2000: Access to Design (presentation)
Archival Resource Key
2000 July 12-15
3
9
Association on Higher Education and Disability (AHEAD), (conference program)
Archival Resource Key
2007
3
10
Blackstone Valley Youth Guidance Center (organizational chart)
Archival Resource Key
undated
3
11
Boston Architectural Center
Archival Resource Key
1998
3
12
A Bridge to Peace, Towards the Millennium, First International Conference in Israel on Tourism
Archival Resource Key
1999 December 2
3
13
Canadian Council on Children and Youth, National Task Force on Children's Play, Play Leadership Training
Archival Resource Key
1978
3
14
Careers in Arts Teleconference
Archival Resource Key
undated
4
1
Casey, Nancy (resume)
Archival Resource Key
1975 June
4
2
Central Office Enrichment Report
Archival Resource Key
1972 - 1973
4
3
Center for Universal Design, North Carolina State University
Archival Resource Key
1994 - 1995
4
4
Centre for Education in the Built Environment (UK)
Archival Resource Key
2001 - 2002
4
5
Centre on Environment for the Handicapped, Tom Mutters
Archival Resource Key
1971
4
6
Cheser, Nancy (play experience)
Archival Resource Key
circa 1970s
4
7
Child Development Center, Glavin Regional Center (brochure)
Archival Resource Key
undated
4
8
Child Environment, interaction design
Archival Resource Key
undated
4
9
Childhood City Newsletter
Archival Resource Key
1978 - 1980
4
10
Childhood City Quarterly
Archival Resource Key
1982 - 1983
4
11
Children in Human Settlements Workshop
Archival Resource Key
circa 1970s
4
12
Children's Museum of Boston, tube playground project (includes recycling building experiment)
Archival Resource Key
1972
4
13
Children's Museum, Resource Center
Archival Resource Key
undated
4
14
It's Child Play
Archival Resource Key
1978 April
4
15
Citizen Schools, Shaping the Future One Child at a Time (presentation)
Archival Resource Key
2005
4
16
Civil Rights, Consumerism, and Universal Design
Archival Resource Key
circa 1990s
4
17
Community Clinical Nursery Schools, statewide educational meeting at Foxboro State Hospital
Archival Resource Key
1971 October 4
4
18
Community Clinical Nursery Schools (newsletter)
Archival Resource Key
1972
4
19
Community Clinical Nursery Schools (proposal)
Archival Resource Key
1972 June
4
20
Katherine Lilly Conroy Learning Laboratory (New York University)
Archival Resource Key
[1983?]
4
21
Consumerism and Universal Design (Centro de Reunioes da FIL, Parque das Nacoes)
Archival Resource Key
2000 December 4-5
4
22
Contracts and requests for teacher training and workshops
Archival Resource Key
1974
4
23
Council of Europe, Committee of Ministers Resolution, RESAP (introduction of the principles of universal design into the curricula of all occupations working on the built environment)
Archival Resource Key
2001 February 1
5
1
Creative Learning Laboratory (videotape project)
Archival Resource Key
1976
5
2
Creative Learning Laboratory, Monson State School (book project)
Archival Resource Key
1977
5
3
Creative Play Center/Lab
Archival Resource Key
1976
5
4
Dance therapy
Archival Resource Key
undated
5
5
Design and designers, the problem or the solution (presentation)
Archival Resource Key
1995 - 1996
5
6
Design Research News, Vol. XXIX, No. 1
Archival Resource Key
1998
5
7
[Desinstitutionalize?]
Archival Resource Key
1974 May
5
8
Developmental Services Resource Team
Archival Resource Key
1974
5
9
Paul A. Dever State School (workshop)
Archival Resource Key
1972 September
5
10
Paul A. Dever State School (regional workshop notes)
Archival Resource Key
1972
5
11
Paul Dever State School (nursery day hall)
Archival Resource Key
1973
5
12
Dexter Arts Resource team (meeting and staff minutes)
Archival Resource Key
1977
5
13
Dexter Community Preparation Program
Archival Resource Key
1976
5
14
Dexter Community Preparation Program
Archival Resource Key
1977
5
15
Dignitas
Archival Resource Key
1987 June 18
5
16
The Disability Rag
Archival Resource Key
1985 January-1985 February
5
17
Diversity Conference, Crossing Lines, Designing Solutions (brochure)
Archival Resource Key
1996 August 23-25
5
18
[Doug, time line]
Archival Resource Key
1977
6
1
Education Collaborative for Greater Boston
Archival Resource Key
1977
6
2
Educational Arts Association
Archival Resource Key
1975
6
3
1
Educational Drama Association
Archival Resource Key
1979
6
4
Educational Facilities Laboratories
Archival Resource Key
1968 - 1972
6
5
Scope and Contents
Includes Schoolhouse, EFL College Newsletter and New Life for Old Schools.
Environment design notes
Archival Resource Key
1970 - 1974
6
6
Environmental design, assessing the built environment
Archival Resource Key
1973
6
7
Environmental Design Research Association, Design Research News
Archival Resource Key
1985 March-1985 April
6
8
Environmental design (spatial competence, quality scales)
Archival Resource Key
undated
6
9
Environmental design, Council for Exceptional Children
Archival Resource Key
1965
6
10
Environmental design, planning workshop with Katie Ahern
Archival Resource Key
1975
6
11
Environmental design, Portland Papers and a primer on design
Archival Resource Key
1975 - 1976
6
12
Environmental designer, job description, job group 23
Archival Resource Key
1971 November
6
13
Environmental Design Research Association, Planning for Play by Elaine Ostroff (paper)
Archival Resource Key
1975
6
14
Environment in education of children with special needs
Archival Resource Key
1972
6
15
European Education Conference, barrier free conference
Archival Resource Key
1997 November 6-8
6
16
European Institute for Design for Disability
Archival Resource Key
2002 May 18
6
17
Executive Services Corps (brochure)
Archival Resource Key
1997
6
18
Facilitating Environments Project (book contract)
Archival Resource Key
1977
6
19
Fernald State School (instructional materials workshop)
Archival Resource Key
1972
6
20
Fair Housing Amendment Act (design/slide show script)
Archival Resource Key
1988
6
22
Film prospectus about play
Archival Resource Key
6
22
Gerontechnology at TUE (Netherlands)
Archival Resource Key
1998
6
23
Graduate summer readings
Archival Resource Key
1968 - 1972
6
24
Gulbicki, Paula (Spontaneous Play and an Avenue for Intellectual Development)
Archival Resource Key
1978
7
1
Greater Boston Association for Retarded Citizens
Archival Resource Key
1982
7
2
Handicapped Adventure Playground Association
Archival Resource Key
1975
7
3
Harbourfront, Toronto, waterfront
Archival Resource Key
1977
7
4
Hearthstone Alzheimer Care
Archival Resource Key
1998
7
5
Homespaces, barrier free workshop flier
Archival Resource Key
undated
7
7
ICM Artists, Ltd.
Archival Resource Key
1984
7
11
Humanizing Environments: A Primer
Archival Resource Key
1978
7
8
Humanizing Environments: A Primer
Humanizing Environments: A Primer (book reviews)
Archival Resource Key
1978
7
9
Humanistic Interventions in the Learning Environment for children with special needs
Archival Resource Key
1972
7
10
Inclusive Design Symposium and Building Awareness
Archival Resource Key
2007
7
12
Infant/Toddler Family Creative Play Center organization and Preparation of a Parent Resource Group
Archival Resource Key
undated
7
13
Informational sheets (used in presentations)
Archival Resource Key
circa 1970s
7
14
Inoue, Shigeki (Universal Design Across the World)
Archival Resource Key
2006 - 2008
7
15
Inservice training program for teachers of children with special needs (draft by Elaine Ostroff)
Archival Resource Key
1975 March
7
16
Intern evaluations
Archival Resource Key
1977
7
17
International Conference on Aging, Disability and Independence (ICADI), Designing for the 21st Century Building a Community for the Lifespan (presentation)
Archival Resource Key
2003
7
18
International Council for Building Research Studies and Documentation, Building Non Handicapping Environments, Budapest (presentation)
Archival Resource Key
1990 - 1991
7
19
Internship notes re: special needs children
Archival Resource Key
1978
7
20
International Design Conference at the United Nations
Archival Resource Key
1982
7
21
International Year of the Child Project
Archival Resource Key
1979
7
22
International Playground Association
Archival Resource Key
1983 - 1983
1974 - 1980
8
1
International Playground Association Newsletter
Archival Resource Key
1976 - 1979
8
2
International Playground Association Newsletter
Archival Resource Key
1980 - 1984
8
3
International Playground Association, workshop notes
Archival Resource Key
undated
8
4
International Playground Association, Forum
Archival Resource Key
1978 - 1978
1
Israel Institute of Technology (presentation)
Archival Resource Key
2002 December
8
5
Journal of Architectural Education
Archival Resource Key
1977 September
8
6
Journal of Architectural Education
Archival Resource Key
Fall 1981
8
6
Jowino: the Learning Place
Archival Resource Key
undated
8
7
Kings Fund Centre (London), Mental Handicap Papers 9
Archival Resource Key
1976
8
8
Legible Environments, Wayfinding (presentation by Neela Thapar)
Archival Resource Key
undated
8
9
Lewis, Don
Archival Resource Key
1972 - 1973
8
10
London Adventure Playground Association
Archival Resource Key
1970
8
11
Life Spaces
Archival Resource Key
1978
9
1
Life Spaces, evaluation data
Archival Resource Key
1978
9
2
Life Spaces (interns and volunteers flyer)
Archival Resource Key
undated
9
3
Life Spaces
Archival Resource Key
1979
9
4
Life Spaces (notes)
Archival Resource Key
circa 1970s
9
5
Life Spaces (workshop)
Archival Resource Key
1979
9
6
Lifespaces , Inc.
Archival Resource Key
undated
9
7
[Man] College, arts and human [services] timeline
Archival Resource Key
undated
9
8
Manga Power Potential for Becoming Universal media (Dai Sogawa)
Archival Resource Key
2000 June
9
9
MATS (open classroom)
Archival Resource Key
1974
9
10
Massachusetts College of Arts (student teachers)
Archival Resource Key
1977
9
11
Massachusetts College of Arts (Franklin Park curriculum by Lynn Kay)
Archival Resource Key
1980
9
12
Massachusetts Department of Health, Central Office Enrichment Report
Archival Resource Key
1972 - 1973
9
13
Massachusetts Department of Mental Health (Enrichment Resource Team)
Archival Resource Key
1973
9
14
Massachusetts Department of Mental Health (Enrichment Resource Team Report)
Archival Resource Key
1974
9
15
Massachusetts Department of Mental Health (Family Creative Play Center
Archival Resource Key
1975
9
16
Massachusetts Department of Mental Health (A Guide for Parents: Helping Your Child to Grow and Learn)
Archival Resource Key
1975
9
17
Massachusetts Department of Mental Health (program enrichment reports by Elaine Ostroff)
Archival Resource Key
1972
9
18
Massachusetts Department of Mental Health (Recycling Skills, book manuscript)
Archival Resource Key
1974
10
1-3
Merrill, Andrew F. (spatial experience for children)
Archival Resource Key
undated
10
4
Clinically Adapted Instruments for the Multiply Handicapped (Modulations Company)
Archival Resource Key
1978
10
5
Mouth Magazine, Volume 18, no. 6
Archival Resource Key
2008
10
6
Mushrush, Paul J. (Universal Accessibility in Residential Architecture)
Archival Resource Key
2003
10
7
National Architectural Accrediting Board (notes)
Archival Resource Key
2003
10
8
National Center for Environmental Health Strategies
Archival Resource Key
undated
10
9
National Center for Law and the Handicapped Amicus, Volume 4, No. 2
Archival Resource Key
1979 March/April
10
10
National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (brochure)
Archival Resource Key
undated
10
11
National Diversity Conference Connections
Archival Resource Key
1995 August 11-13
10
12
National Endowment for the Arts, Experiences of Individuals with Disabilities Pursuing Careers in the Arts
Archival Resource Key
2005 September
10
13
National Endowment for the Arts, Universal Design Leadership Project
Archival Resource Key
2005
10
14
National Forum Careers in the Arts for People with Disabilities
Archival Resource Key
2007
10
15
National Guild of Community Schools of the Arts, Inc.
Archival Resource Key
1978
10
16
National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research
Archival Resource Key
1998 July
10
17
National Playing Fields Association Play Times
Archival Resource Key
1979 May
1980 July
10
18
Nordic Council on Disability Policy, Design for All in the Public Transport and Design for all in Education (Stockholm), Collaborative Developments in Universal Design Education (presentation)
Archival Resource Key
2004
10
19
Northampton Comprehensive Children's Center
Archival Resource Key
1975
11
1
Northampton Nursing Home (sensory stimulation program)
Archival Resource Key
undated
11
2
Northeastern Learning Resource Center, Education of Severely and Profoundly Handicapped Children and Youth
Archival Resource Key
[1975?]
11
3
Northeastern University, design workshop
Archival Resource Key
1977 June
11
4
Northeastern University, Early Childhood Handicapped and Severely Handicapped Teacher Training Program
Archival Resource Key
1977
11
5
North Shore Special Education Consortium (vouchers)
Archival Resource Key
1977
11
6
Ordinary Moments, Expressions of the Disabled, John F. Kennedy Library (exhibit)
Archival Resource Key
1981
11
7
Personalizing Places Workshop
Archival Resource Key
1977 June
11
8
Pierce School workshops--circus, tribes, space, puppets, storytelling, and games
Archival Resource Key
1978
11
9-9A
Playground Clearing House, Inc. (play plans)
Archival Resource Key
1978 - 1978
14
13
Playground for all Children, City of New York Parks and Recreation
Archival Resource Key
1985 - 1985
14
14
Prescriptive Toy Making
Archival Resource Key
1975 - 1975
14
16
Psychology-related articles
Archival Resource Key
undated
14
17
Rhode Island School of Design (Universal Kitchen Design)
Archival Resource Key
1998 - 1998
1996
11
12
Sargent, John (Creating Environments for Healthy Growth and Natural Unfoldment
Archival Resource Key
1977
11
13
Schoolworks, Inc.
Archival Resource Key
circa 1970s
11
14
Smith, Eleanor, Low Cost Zero Steps entrances (power point text)
Archival Resource Key
2005
11
15
Jesse Stanton Developmental Playground (New York University)
Archival Resource Key
undated
11
15A
Stony Hill Lab (objectives)
Archival Resource Key
1977
11
16
State Community Arts: An Analysis (Hachney, Michael)
Archival Resource Key
undated
11
17
Strategies for teaching and Recruiting Designers for an Inclusive World, Brussels (presentation)
Archival Resource Key
2002 May 17
11
18
Judith Lee Stronach Memorial Lectures on the Teaching of Poetry
Archival Resource Key
1005 - 2006
11
19
Studies of User Involvement in the Universal Design Process (presentation)
Archival Resource Key
undated
11
20
Tassier, Gonzalo (Sir Misha Black Award)
Archival Resource Key
2008
11
21
Tetrahedron Project
Archival Resource Key
1972 October
11
22
The Toilet Paper, Volume 1, Issue 4, (research newsletter)
Archival Resource Key
2007
11
23
Toward Universal Design (information sheet)
Archival Resource Key
undated
12
1
United Kingdom Institute for Inclusive Design
Archival Resource Key
2002
12
2
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia, Towards inclusive Cities
Archival Resource Key
[1994?]
12
3
United Retirement Bulletin
Archival Resource Key
1989 September
12
4
Universal design (writings about)
Archival Resource Key
1990 - 1995
12
5
Universal design and accessible design (by Elaine Ostroff)
Archival Resource Key
undated
12
6
Universal Design Accessibility and Autonomy, Lisbon (presentation)
Archival Resource Key
2000 December
12
7
Universal Design Education Project (article)
Archival Resource Key
1997
12
8
Universal Design Identity Project (UDid) (National Endowment for the Arts)
Archival Resource Key
2005
12
9
Universal Design, New Opportunities for Imaginative Designers, Architecture (article)
Archival Resource Key
2002
12
10
Universal Design Newsletter
Archival Resource Key
1996 - 1996
12
10A
Universal Design Newsletter
Archival Resource Key
1999 - 2002
12
11
Universal Design Newsletter
Archival Resource Key
2003 - 2007
12
12
Universal Design and Wisconsin
Archival Resource Key
2006
12
13
University of Massachusetts, Amherst Child Environment Interaction /Design (course)
Archival Resource Key
1974 - 1975
12
14
University of Massachusetts, Amherst (independent study forms)
Archival Resource Key
1976
12
16
University of Salford, Surface Inclusive Design Research Centre
Archival Resource Key
undated
12
17
University of Westminster, MBA Design Management
Archival Resource Key
1999
12
18
Upperman, Mae (assessment for environment planning)
Archival Resource Key
undated
12
19
Values at Work, A Trainers Manual
Archival Resource Key
1981
13
1
Volpe, Michael
Archival Resource Key
1977
13
2
[Weekly reports]
Archival Resource Key
1978
13
3
Westport Cultural Council
Archival Resource Key
2008
13
4
Westport Village, Massachusetts Sidewalk Committee (public discussion notes)
Archival Resource Key
2006 April
13
5
West Springfield DDC
Archival Resource Key
1974
13
6
Wheelock College (movement workshop)
Archival Resource Key
1977 January
1978 December
13
7
Wheelock College (course notes about the arts and environmental design for young children)
Archival Resource Key
undated
13
8
White, Giselda
Archival Resource Key
1971
1978 - 1978
13
9
Word Guild (book consultants)
Archival Resource Key
1977
13
10
Massachusetts Department of Mental Health, Play Lab
Archival Resource Key
1975 - 1975
13
11
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Planning for Play Project (early notes)
Archival Resource Key
circa 1970s
11
10
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Play Lab (blueprints)
Archival Resource Key
1975 - 1975
1
13
12
University of Massachusetts, Amherst (planning for play graduate program brochure)
Archival Resource Key
undated
12
15
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Planning for Play Project (final reports for a training program by the Massachusetts State Department of Mental Health)
Archival Resource Key
1974
11
11
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Planning for Play (internship)
Archival Resource Key
1975
13
13
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Planning for Play (normalization papers)
Archival Resource Key
1975
13
14
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Planning for Play (parent evaluations)
Archival Resource Key
1975
13
15
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Planning for Play (personal evaluations)
Archival Resource Key
undated
13
16
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Planning for Play (internal proposal)
Archival Resource Key
1974
13
17
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Planning for Play (Transforming Institutions with Play, the Arts and Environmental Design)
Archival Resource Key
1974 - 1976
13
18
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, (School of Education, drafts on open education)
Archival Resource Key
1975
13
19
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, (arts and play in early childhood)
Archival Resource Key
1974
13
20
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Planning for Play (graduate fellowship and assistantship forms)
Archival Resource Key
1975
13
21
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Planning for Play (progress report and budget)
Archival Resource Key
1975
13
22
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Planning for Play (evaluation of play leadership)
Archival Resource Key
1974
13
23
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Planning for Play (original hand-out for open house)
Archival Resource Key
undated
13
24
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Planning for Play (first year description and evaluation
Archival Resource Key
1974 - 1975
13
25
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Planning for Play (program evaluation)
Archival Resource Key
1975
13
26
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Planning for Play (group interview)
Archival Resource Key
undated
1
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, (Play Arts Adventure leadership, papers and course evaluations)
Archival Resource Key
1974
14
1
University of Massachusetts, Amherst (Planning for Play report)
Archival Resource Key
1975
14
2
University of Massachusetts, Amherst (Planning for Play project, The Story of No Place to Play
Archival Resource Key
undated
14
3
University of Massachusetts, Amherst (play-related newspaper articles)
Archival Resource Key
1975 - 1976
14
4
University of Massachusetts, Amherst (Play Lab 2, notes about kids needs)
Archival Resource Key
1975
14
5
University of Massachusetts, Amherst (Play Lab 2, management)
Archival Resource Key
1976
14
6
University of Massachusetts, Amherst (Play Lab 2, paper by Laura Meyers)
Archival Resource Key
1976
14
7
University of Massachusetts, Amherst (Play Lab 2, meeting minutes)
Archival Resource Key
1975 - 1976
14
8
University of Massachusetts, Amherst (Play Lab 2, statistics)
Archival Resource Key
undated
14
9
University of Massachusetts, Amherst (Play Lab 2, demonstrations play laboratory)
Archival Resource Key
circa 1970s
14
10
University of Massachusetts, Amherst (Play Lab 2, notes on kids needs)
Archival Resource Key
undated
1
University of Massachusetts, Amherst (play assessment inventory)
Archival Resource Key
undated
14
11
University of Massachusetts, Amherst (Play Arts and Adventure leadership, course materials)
Archival Resource Key
1980
14
12
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Play Leadership (minutes)
Archival Resource Key
1975 - 1975
14
15
Publications about play and children
Archival Resource Key
1975 - 1983
15
1
Recycle, Framingham tube ideas
Archival Resource Key
[1974?]
15
2
Recycle Village at Marathon
Archival Resource Key
Undated
15
3
Recycle Village at Marathon
Research papers (about early childhood development, special needs, and dance therapy)
Archival Resource Key
1971 - 1975
15
4
RESNA Instructional Course, Ottawa
Archival Resource Key
1984 - 1984
15
5
Rotary talk, 1976 March
Archival Resource Key
1976-03 - 1976-03
15
6
Royal College of Art, includes 2007 Conference
Archival Resource Key
2007 - 2007
15
7
San Diego State University, Weblectures on universal design and accommodations
Archival Resource Key
1999 - 2001
15
8
Sao Paulo Acessivel (brochure), 1999
Archival Resource Key
1999 - 1999
15
9
North Carolina State University, Center for Universal Design Newsletter
Archival Resource Key
1998
18
2
North Carolina State University, Ethics, Architecture and the Making of Place, (panel discussion)
Archival Resource Key
undated
18
3
Universal Design Education Program Files
Series 3
Archival Resource Key
1993-2008
bulk 1993-1998
Scope and Contents
This series consists of materials about the Universal Design Education Program created by Ostroff in 1989 as a project of the Adaptive Environments Center. The program awarded grants through a national competitions. It was partially funded by the National Endowment for the Arts to increase the understanding of universal design concepts across curricula in interior design, architecture, landscape architecture, product design, and urban planning. Ostroff was the project director. Many of the organizations awarded a grant held universal design conferences, symposia, and charettes.
The materials are arranged alphabetically by name of the academic institution (e.g. Michigan State University) and consist of correspondence, memoranda, proposals, reports, photographs, slides, diskettes, questionnaires and evaluation data, financial data, case study comments, and conference-related materials for each school that was awarded a grant. Additional materials documenting the UDEP program are also included. This includes presentations and materials for the First International Conference on Universal Design (1998) held at Hofstra University in New York.
California Polytechnic State University (College of Architecture and Environmental Design)
2.1
Archival Resource Key
1993 - 1996
Retrospective
Archival Resource Key
undated
16
1
Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
1993 - 1994
16
2
Finances
Archival Resource Key
1993
16
3
Architecture 401 Toward Universal Design
Archival Resource Key
1993
16
4
First report
Archival Resource Key
1993
16
5
Second report
Archival Resource Key
1994
16
6
Final report comments
Archival Resource Key
1994 July-1994 September
16
7
Report
Archival Resource Key
1996 July
16
8
Columbus College
2.2
Archival Resource Key
1993 - 1993
Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
1993 - 1993
16
9
Eastern Michigan University
2.3
Archival Resource Key
1993 - 1994
Syllabi and Problem Statements
Archival Resource Key
1998 January
16
10
Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
1993
16
11
First report
Archival Resource Key
1993
16
12
Second report
Archival Resource Key
1994
16
13
Questionnaries
Archival Resource Key
1994
16
14
Iowa State University
2.4
Archival Resource Key
1995 - 1995
Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
1995
16
15
Kansas State University
2.5
Archival Resource Key
1993 - 1994
1997 - 1997
Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
1993
16
16
Second report
Archival Resource Key
1994
16
17
New course outline
Archival Resource Key
1997
16
18
Louisiana State University
2.6
Archival Resource Key
1993 - 1994
Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
1993
17
1
Questionnaire for participants
Archival Resource Key
1994
17
2
Second report
Archival Resource Key
1994
17
3
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2.7
Archival Resource Key
1993 - 1994
Proposal
Archival Resource Key
1993
17
4
Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
1993 - 1994
17
5
First report
Archival Resource Key
1993 - 1994
17
6
Second report
Archival Resource Key
1994
17
7
Finances
Archival Resource Key
1993 - 1993
17
8
Miami University
2.8
Archival Resource Key
1993 - 1995
Preliminary report
Archival Resource Key
1993 November
17
10
Mini conference and design charette
Archival Resource Key
1993 November
17
11
Case study comments
Archival Resource Key
[1994?]
17
12
Robert Null book project
Archival Resource Key
1993
17
13
Third report
Archival Resource Key
1994 - 1995
17
14
Michigan State University
2.9
Archival Resource Key
1993 - 1994
First report
Archival Resource Key
1993 August
17
16
Second report
Archival Resource Key
1994 Febuary-1994 March
17
17
Third report
Archival Resource Key
1994 August-1994 September
18
1
North Dakota State University
2.10
Archival Resource Key
1993 - 1994
Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
1993 - 1994
18
4
Project advisor Paul Grayson
Archival Resource Key
1993
18
5
Second report
Archival Resource Key
1993 - 1994
18
6
Spectrum
Archival Resource Key
1993 - 1993
1
Norwich University
2.11
Archival Resource Key
1993 - 1994
Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
1993
18
7
Proposal
Archival Resource Key
1993 August
18
8
Second report
Archival Resource Key
1994
18
9
Case study comments
Archival Resource Key
undated
18
10
Pratt Institute
2.12
Archival Resource Key
1993 - 1994
Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
1993 - 1994
18
11
Case study comments
Archival Resource Key
1993
18
12
First report
Archival Resource Key
1993
18
13
Pratt Institute report
Archival Resource Key
1994
18
14
Teach-In on universal design
Archival Resource Key
1993
18
15
Those Who Can, Do...Those Who Can't Teach...
Archival Resource Key
1994 January 14
1
Those Who Can, Do...Those Who Can't Teach...
Purdue University
2.13
Archival Resource Key
1993 - 1994
Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
1993
19
1
First report
Archival Resource Key
1993
19
2
Second report
Archival Resource Key
1993 December
19
3
Third report
Archival Resource Key
1994
19
4
Case study comments
Archival Resource Key
1994
19
5
Ringling School of Art and Design
2.14
Archival Resource Key
1993 - 1994
Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
1993
19
6
Finances
Archival Resource Key
1993
19
7
Second report
Archival Resource Key
1994 June
19
8
San Francisco State University
2.15
Archival Resource Key
2003 - 2003
1999 - 1999
1996 - 1996
First report
Archival Resource Key
1996 January
1999 - 1999
2003 - 2003
19
9
State University of New York at Buffalo
2.16
Archival Resource Key
1993 - 1996
Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
1993 - 1996
19
10
Finances
Archival Resource Key
1993
19
11
First report
Archival Resource Key
1993 August
19
12
Second report
Archival Resource Key
1994 March
19
13
Third report
Archival Resource Key
1994 May
19
14
Final report
Archival Resource Key
1996 October 8
19
15
Questionnaires
Archival Resource Key
1994
19
16
Educators Forum
Archival Resource Key
1996 November 22-1996 November 23
19
17
Texas Tech University
2.17
Archival Resource Key
1993 - 1994
1996 - 1996
First report
Archival Resource Key
1996 January
19
18
Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
1993
19
19
Third report
Archival Resource Key
1994
19
20
University of Cincinnati
Series 2.18
Archival Resource Key
1993 - 1993
1995 - 1995
Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
1993
1995 - 1995
19
21
University of Missouri at Columbia
2.19
Archival Resource Key
1993 - 1994
Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
1993
19
22
Evaluations
Archival Resource Key
1993
19
23
Case study comments
Archival Resource Key
1994 September 24
19
24
Third report
Archival Resource Key
1994
19
25
University of Oregon
2.20
Archival Resource Key
1998 - 1998
1996 - 1996
First report
Archival Resource Key
1996 - 1996
20
1
Final report
Archival Resource Key
1998 - 1998
20
2
University of South Florida at Tampa
2.21
Archival Resource Key
1993 - 1994
Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
1993 - 1994
20
3
First report
Archival Resource Key
1993 - 1993
20
4
University of Southwestern Louisiana at Lafayette
2.22
Archival Resource Key
Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
1993 - 1994
20
5
Evaluations
Archival Resource Key
1993
20
6
First report
Archival Resource Key
1993
20
7
Faculty workshop
Archival Resource Key
1993 August 23
20
8
Second report
Archival Resource Key
1994 February
20
9
Third report
Archival Resource Key
[1994?]
20
10
Report
Archival Resource Key
1993 September 15
20
11
Slides and disks
Archival Resource Key
1996
20
12
Final report
Archival Resource Key
1996 June
20
13
Faculty and student questionnaires
Archival Resource Key
1994 - 1994
20
14
University of Tennessee at Knoxville
2.23
Archival Resource Key
1993 - 1993
Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
1993
20
15
Synthesizing lifespan issues within the studio classroom, seeing, experiencing, designing
Archival Resource Key
undated
20
16
Case study comments
Archival Resource Key
undated
20
17
Interim report
Archival Resource Key
1993 October
20
18
Interim report
Archival Resource Key
1993 October
21
1
Interim report
Archival Resource Key
1993 October
21
2
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Interior Design Program)
2.24
Archival Resource Key
1993 - 1994
1996 - 1996
Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
1993 - 1994
21
3
Report
Archival Resource Key
1996 June
21
4
Second Report
Archival Resource Key
1994 June
21
5
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Department of Landscape Agriculture)
2.25
Archival Resource Key
1993 - 2001
Final report
Archival Resource Key
1994 June
21
6
First report
Archival Resource Key
1994 January
21
7
Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
1993
21
8
Case study comments
Archival Resource Key
1994
21
9
Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
1993 - 1994
21
11
List of Schools
Archival Resource Key
2000 - 2001
1995
21
12
Colloquium, Bob Shibley
Archival Resource Key
1993
21
13
Faculty Meeting
Archival Resource Key
1994 November 18-19
21
14
Project survey updates
Archival Resource Key
1997
21
15
Industrial Design Society of America National Conference, Natural Resources, Santa Fe
Archival Resource Key
1995
21
16
International Conference on Universal Design (Hofstra University)
Archival Resource Key
1998
21
17
International Conference on Universal Design, photographs
Archival Resource Key
1998
21
19
International Conference on Universal Design, participant list
Archival Resource Key
1998
21
19
International Conference on Universal Design, Keynote and awards ceremony transcripts
Archival Resource Key
1998 June
22
1
International Conference on Universal Design, transcripts
Archival Resource Key
1998 June
22
2
International Conference on Universal Design, of information, products, and proceedings
Archival Resource Key
1998 June
22
3
International Conference on Universal Design, evaluation summary
Archival Resource Key
1998
22
4
International Conference on Universal Design
Archival Resource Key
2000 June
22
5
International Conference on Universal Design, Designing for the 21st Century II
Archival Resource Key
2001 - 2001
22
6
International Conference on Universal Design, Designing for the 21st Century II (letterhead and logo)
Archival Resource Key
2001 - 2001
22
7
International Conference on Universal Design, Designing for the 21st Century II (International Educator's Forum)
Archival Resource Key
2004 December
22
8
International Conference on Universal Design, Designing for the 21st Century II (International Educator's Forum)
Archival Resource Key
2004 December
22
9
International Conference on Universal Design, Designing for the 21st Century II (International Educator's Forum Report)
Archival Resource Key
2002 - 2002
22
10
International Conference on Universal Design, Designing for the 21st Century II (International Educator's Forum corporate sponsor information)
Archival Resource Key
2004 June
22
11
International Conference on Universal Design, Designing for the 21st Century II (International Educator's Forum, letter of invitation)
Archival Resource Key
2004-09 - 2004-09
22
12
International Conference on Universal Design, Designing for the 21st Century II (International Educator's Forum, Brazil Forum)
Archival Resource Key
2004
23
1
International Conference on Universal Design, Designing for the 21st Century II (International Educator's Forum)
Archival Resource Key
1995 November 17-18
23
2
International Conference on Universal Design, Designing for the 21st Century II (International Educator's Forum, transcripts of presentations)
Archival Resource Key
1996
23
3
Universal Design, Access to Daily Living Conference
Archival Resource Key
1992 May 14-1992 May 15
1
Universal Design Education Project Forum (4th), notes
Archival Resource Key
1998
23
4
Universal Design Education Project Forum (5th), evaluations
Archival Resource Key
1997
23
5
Universal Design Educator Roundtable
Archival Resource Key
2001 June
23
6
Universal Design Faculty Colloquium (correspondence)
Archival Resource Key
1993
23
7
Universal Design Faculty Resource Notebook
Archival Resource Key
1993 May
23
8
Universal Design Education Project 2.0 (proposals and reviews)
Archival Resource Key
1995
23
9-10
Universal Design Education Project (evaluation report)
Archival Resource Key
1997
23
11
Universal Design Education Project (preliminary evaluation)
Archival Resource Key
1998
24
1
University of West of England (seminar presentation)
Archival Resource Key
2008
24
2
Slides (general)
Archival Resource Key
45 Slides
24
3
Adaptive Environments
Series 4
Archival Resource Key
1978 - 2009
Scope and Contents
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.
Access to Design Professions Project (background)
Archival Resource Key
1999 - 2000
24
4
Access to Design Professions Project (board member lists)
Archival Resource Key
1996
24
5
Access to Design Professions Project (interviews of designers)
Archival Resource Key
1999 June-1999 July
24
6
Access to Design Professions Project (planning workshop)
Archival Resource Key
1999 August
24
7
Access to Design Professions Project (task force meeting)
Archival Resource Key
1999
24
8
Access to Design Professions Project (questionnaire about disabled students in design schools)
Archival Resource Key
2001
24
9
Access to Design Professions Project (Build Boston)
Archival Resource Key
2000 - 2002
24
10
Access to Design Professions Project (media coordination)
Archival Resource Key
2002
24
11
Access to Design Professions Project (meeting in Washington, DC)
Archival Resource Key
2002 July 16
24
12
Access to Design Professions Project (feedback and forms)
Archival Resource Key
2002 July 16
24
13
Access to Design Professions Project (advisory meeting)
Archival Resource Key
2002 December
24
14
Access to Design Professions Project (Building Careers in Design, subcontract invoice)
Archival Resource Key
2004
24
15
Access to Design Professions Project (Building Careers in Design, proposal and timeline)
Archival Resource Key
2004
24
16
Access to Design Professions Project (web resources project)
Archival Resource Key
2003
24
17
Access to Design Profession project (research associate job description)
Archival Resource Key
2003
25
1
Access to Design Profession Project (Building Careers in Design, online course evaluation)
Archival Resource Key
2004
25
2
Access to Design Profession Project (Building Careers in Design, online training for Rehabilitation Professionals, counselor experiences)
Archival Resource Key
2004
25
3
Access to Design Profession Project (Building Careers in Design, first formative evaluation report)
Archival Resource Key
2004
25
4
Access to Design Profession Project (budget report)
Archival Resource Key
2003 - 2005
25
5
Access to Design Profession Project (final report)
Archival Resource Key
2003
25
6
Access to Design Profession Project (e-mentoring questionnaire)
Archival Resource Key
2005
25
7
Access to Design Profession Project (grant application)
Archival Resource Key
2000
25
8
Access to Design Profession Project (Daniel Hunter contract)
Archival Resource Key
25
9
Access to Design Profession Project (Susan Ransom agreement)
Archival Resource Key
2001
25
10
Access to Design Profession Project (no cost extension)
Archival Resource Key
undated
25
11
Access to Design Profession Project (report)
Archival Resource Key
2003 - 2003
2000
25
12
Access to Design Profession Project (budget report)
Archival Resource Key
2000 - 2004
25
13
Access to Design Profession Project (personnel payments)
Archival Resource Key
2003 - 2005
25
14
Access to Design Profession Project (Policies and Guidelines for an Inclusive Environment in Studio-Based Programs)
Archival Resource Key
2005 - 2007
25
15
Access to Design Profession Project (Building a World Fit for People, One Disabled Designer at a Time, powerpoint text)
Archival Resource Key
circa 2007
25
16
Access to Design Profession Project
Archival Resource Key
2008
25
17
ADA, Universal Design and Teaching of Design, A Faculty Development Program (quarterly reports)
Archival Resource Key
1994
25
18
Design for Living Environments for Older People
Archival Resource Key
1983
25
19
Job descriptions
Archival Resource Key
1978
25
20
American Institute of Architecture Students, Studio Culture Task Force
Archival Resource Key
2002
25
21
Architecture Special Programs
Archival Resource Key
2004
25
22
ArchVoices
Archival Resource Key
2002
25
23
Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ASCA), 91st annual meeting information
Archival Resource Key
2003
25
24
ADA Showroom Managers Council, Universal Design for Changing Lives, Changing Times
Archival Resource Key
2008 June 25
26
1
Barrier Free Environments, Inc., Less Restrictive Housing Environments
Archival Resource Key
1986
26
2
Boston Regional Discussion Meeting
Archival Resource Key
26
3
Branding logo and identity
Archival Resource Key
undated
26
4
Building a World Fit for People
Archival Resource Key
2002
26
5
Certificate of recognition in honor of retirement from Adaptive Environments (from Governor of Massachusetts, Argeo Paul Cellucci)
Archival Resource Key
1998 March 2
1
Progressive Architecture (citation)
Archival Resource Key
1990 January
26
6
Conference on Adaptive Environments (papers from presentations)
Archival Resource Key
1982
26
7
2020 Vision: A Diversity Conference for Design Professions
Archival Resource Key
2003 November 19-20
26
8
Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA)
Archival Resource Key
1995
26
9
Designing for Diversity
Archival Resource Key
1995 - 1996
26
10
Designing the Future: Toward Universal Design (transcript)
Archival Resource Key
1994 November 17
26
11
Dimensions, Journal of Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Planning, and Interior Design, Volume II, No. 2
Archival Resource Key
undated
26
12
European Institute for Design and Disability (newsletters)
Archival Resource Key
1994 - 1998
26
13
Floor plan, first floor
Archival Resource Key
2006 June
26
14
Homes Initiative Project
Archival Resource Key
1988
26
15
Housing Accessibility for Deaf and Hard of Hearing People
Archival Resource Key
1991
26
16
Housing-related
Archival Resource Key
1986 - 1987
1990 - 1990
27
1
Industrial Designers Society of America (newsletter)
Archival Resource Key
1995 September
27
2
Institute papers
Archival Resource Key
1980 April 1
27
3
International Conference on Universal Design, Hofstra University (background)
Archival Resource Key
1997 - 1998
27
4
International Conference on Universal Design, Hofstra University (awards)
Archival Resource Key
1998
27
5
International Conference on Universal Design, Hofstra University (banners)
Archival Resource Key
1998
27
6
International Conference on Universal Design, Hofstra University (insurance claim)
Archival Resource Key
1998
27
7
Kiewel, Harold Dean
Archival Resource Key
1998
27
8
National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB)
Archival Resource Key
undated
27
9
National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, (Ostroff research and fellowship application )
Archival Resource Key
1998
27
10
Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
Archival Resource Key
1998 - 1999
27
11
Rhode Island School of Design
Archival Resource Key
1998
27
12
National Endowment for the Arts, National Forum on Careers in the Arts for Persons with Disabilities
Archival Resource Key
2000
27
13
National Endowment for the Arts, Careers in the Arts Task Force
Archival Resource Key
2008
27
14
National Endowment for the Arts, Careers in the Arts for Persons with Disabilities
Archival Resource Key
2009
27
15
A Neighborhood for People, Universal Design in the South Boston Waterfront
Archival Resource Key
2000
27
16
Neighborhoods Fit for All People (Clipper Ship Foundation)
Archival Resource Key
2003 - 2004
27
17
United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, Universal Design Housing for the Lifespan of All People
Archival Resource Key
1988 August
28
1
Pratt Institute, What is Universal Design (exhibit)
Archival Resource Key
1998
28
2
Publications list
Archival Resource Key
1995
28
3
Reclaiming Repton's, Man with One Leg: Landscape Taste and Disability (research proposal, University of Oregon)
Archival Resource Key
1998 - 1999
28
4
Research articles
Archival Resource Key
1976
28
5
San Diego State University Interwork Institute
Archival Resource Key
2005
28
6
Teaching Design for All People by Elaine Ostroff and Daniel Iacofano
Archival Resource Key
1982 April 1-3
1
Teaching Design for All People by Elaine Ostroff and Daniel Iacofano
United Kingdom Institute for Inclusive Design
Archival Resource Key
2000 - 2000
1997
28
7
Universal Design Education Project, faculty colloquium participants
Archival Resource Key
1993 - 1994
28
8
Universal Design Education Project, Build Boston
Archival Resource Key
1994 November 16-17
28
9
World Congress on Environmental Design for the New Millennium
Archival Resource Key
2000 November
28
10
Miscellaneous
Archival Resource Key
1995
28
11
Architecture for Social Justice Awards, Bildungskonferenz Education Conference
Archival Resource Key
1997 November 6-8
28
12
Architecture for Social Justice Awards, faculty letters and notes
Archival Resource Key
2003 - 2004
28
13
Architecture for Social Justice Awards, design studios style guidelines
Archival Resource Key
2003 - 2004
28
14
Architecture for Social Justice Awards, promoting universal design and human diversity (position paper)
Archival Resource Key
2003
28
15
Architecture for Social Justice Awards, The Detroit Studio
Archival Resource Key
2003
28
16
Architecture for Social Justice Awards, Georgia Institute of Technology
Archival Resource Key
2004
28
17
Architecture for Social Justice Awards, Mississippi State University
Archival Resource Key
2003 - 2004
28
18
Architecture for Social Justice Awards, Texas A & M University
Archival Resource Key
2003 - 2004
28
19
Architecture for Social Justice Awards, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Archival Resource Key
2004
28
20
Architecture for Social Justice Awards, Rhode Island School of Design
Archival Resource Key
2003
28
21
Architecture for Social Justice Awards, Rhode Island School of Design
Archival Resource Key
2004
29
1
Architecture for Social Justice Awards, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Archival Resource Key
29
3
Architecture for Social Justice Award, University of New Mexico
Archival Resource Key
2004 - 2006
29
3
Architecture for Social Justice Award, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Archival Resource Key
2004
29
4
Architecture for Social Justice Award, Washington State University
Archival Resource Key
[2003?]
29
5
Architecture for Social Justice Awards, Social xChange
Archival Resource Key
2004
29
6
Architecture for Social Justice Awards, Social xChange
Archival Resource Key
2005
29
7
Architecture for Social Justice Awards, submissions
Archival Resource Key
2003
29
9
Architecture for Social Justice Awards, publication
Archival Resource Key
undated
29
10
Architecture for Social Justice Awards, faculty
Archival Resource Key
2004
29
11
Architecture for Social Justice Awards, signed agreements
Archival Resource Key
2003
29
12
Architecture for Social Justice Awards, program overview
Archival Resource Key
2003 - 2004
29
13
Architecture for Social Justice Awards, review worksheet
Archival Resource Key
undated
29
14
Architecture for Social Justice Awards, poster
Archival Resource Key
undated
29
15
National Endowment for the Arts, background on universal design leadership initiative
Archival Resource Key
1990
29
16
National Endowment for the Arts, background on universal design leadership initiative meeting
Archival Resource Key
1989 - 1990
29
17
National Endowment for the Arts, background on universal design leadership initiative meeting
Archival Resource Key
1990 June
29
18
National Endowment for the Arts, background on universal design leadership initiative, notes
Archival Resource Key
1995
29
19
National Endowment for the Arts, background on universal design meeting report
Archival Resource Key
1999 June
29
20
National Endowment for the Arts, Design for the Lifespan: Aging in Place (Report for AARP)
Archival Resource Key
2001
29
21
Newspaper clippings
Archival Resource Key
2004 - 2007
31
1
Japan
Series 5
Archival Resource Key
1996 - 1999
Scope and Contents
This series relates to Ostroff's work about universal design and travel in Japan. There are brochures, newspaper clippings, articles, presentations, and notes. The materials are arranged alphabetically.
ATC Ageless Center, Osaka, Japan
Archival Resource Key
1998
30
2
E & C Project
Archival Resource Key
1998 - 1999
30
3
Educating for Universal Design and the Universal Design Education Project, Yokohama, Japan
Archival Resource Key
1998 December 3
30
4
Disability rights demonstration images
Archival Resource Key
1998
30
5
Disabled Peoples Association (fund raising dinner)
Archival Resource Key
1997
30
6
Health Care Design Symposium
Archival Resource Key
undated
30
7
International Workshop on Design, Yokohama, Japan
Archival Resource Key
1998
30
8
Japan Braille Library
Archival Resource Key
1997
30
9
Keio University materials
Archival Resource Key
1999
30
10
Miscellaneous publications
Archival Resource Key
1999
30
11
Sekisui House
Archival Resource Key
1996
31
1
SEN, Inc. (landscape architects)
Archival Resource Key
undated
31
2
STA Forum (book chapter for Design Guidelines for Barrier-Free Dwellings and preparing for the Coming Aged Society in Japan)
Archival Resource Key
1997
31
3
Universal Design Kochi
Archival Resource Key
1999
31
4
Tokyo Symposium (universal design)
Archival Resource Key
1999
31
5
Urban planning materials
Archival Resource Key
1996
31
6
Nagoya City University, School of Design and Architecture
Archival Resource Key
undated
31
7
Photographs and Slides
Series 6
Archival Resource Key
1971 - 2002
Scope and Contents
This series contains slides, photographs, negatives, and contact sheets depicting Ostroff's work with children and others. Many of the slides were used in presentations given by Ostroff, and some of the photographs were used in publications, particularly Humanizing Environments: A Primer (1978). The materials are arranged chronologically.
[Playthings Exhibition]
Archival Resource Key
15 Slides
1971
36
Gunnar Dybwad, Heller School for Social Policy and management, Brandeis University
Archival Resource Key
52 Slides
[1971?]
36
Industrial Design in the UK
Archival Resource Key
28 Slides
1971
36
Workshop for teachers
Archival Resource Key
1971 - 1971
1
Dever Day Hall
Archival Resource Key
7 Slides
1973
36
[Miscellaneous]
Archival Resource Key
7 Slides
1973
36
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Planning for Play (graduate interns)
Archival Resource Key
8 Photographs
1974 - 1975
37
2
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Planning for Play
Archival Resource Key
12 Photographs
1975 - 1975
37
3
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Planning for Play
Scope and Contents
Photographs by Megan Kerr.
Integrated after school program making shows
Archival Resource Key
79 Slides
circa 1976
36
Cape Cod, Massachusetts
Archival Resource Key
1 Contact sheet
1977 August 23
37
1
Design Faculty Seminar
Archival Resource Key
13 Slides
1982
36
[Early home med?]
Archival Resource Key
21 Slides
[1984?]
36
Best of Accessible Boston
Archival Resource Key
15 Slides
1985
36
[Fair Housing Amendments Act of 1988, accessibility guidelines slide show
Archival Resource Key
43 Slides
1988
36
Universal Design Conference drawings, Raleigh, North Carolina
Archival Resource Key
35 Slides
1993 May
36
Universal Design Education Project
Archival Resource Key
22 Photographs
1994
36
Universal Design Education Project (Build Boston, Boston Society of Architects)
Archival Resource Key
22 Photographs
1994
36
Scope and Contents
Includes images of Ron Mace, Gunnar Dybwad and Ruth Lusher
San Francisco State University, workshop and student work
Archival Resource Key
27 Slides
1996
36
Consumerism and Universal Design (presentation)
Archival Resource Key
23 Slides
1996 - 1997
36
DE SIGN UM slides (for a magazine article)
Archival Resource Key
11 Slides
1997
36
[Disney text slides]
Archival Resource Key
16 Slides
1999
36
Inclusion By Design (presentation)
Archival Resource Key
18 Slides
2001
36
[Pictures from Andrew]
Archival Resource Key
9 Photographs
[2002?]
36
[Pictures from Andrew]
[Miscellaneous]
Archival Resource Key
16 Photographs
2002
36
Scope and Contents
Includes images of Elaine Ostroff.
European Design for Aging Network 50+
Archival Resource Key
20 Slides
undated
35
Adaptive Environments, title slides for presentation
Archival Resource Key
5 Slides
undated
35
[Mainz]
Archival Resource Key
20 Slides
undated
35
[Old accessibility slides]
Archival Resource Key
9 Slides
undated
35
Universal Design Education project, title slides
Archival Resource Key
13 Slides
35
[BFE, early adaptability highlights and ADA]
Archival Resource Key
40 Slides
undated
35
Miscellaneous Universal Design Education Project
Archival Resource Key
34 Slides
35
Universal Design Education Project
Archival Resource Key
38 Slides
35
Rhode Island School of Design
Archival Resource Key
27 Slides
35
Miscellaneous slides
Archival Resource Key
190 Slides
35
Universal Design Education Project, [University at Buffalo?]
Archival Resource Key
35 Slides
35
Photographs (children)
Archival Resource Key
1977
31
8
Alternatives Unlimited, Inc. (Arts and the Environment)
Archival Resource Key
1979
31
9
Alternatives Unlimited, Inc. (Arts and the Environment)
Belchertown State School, Belchertown, Massachusetts (contact sheets)
Archival Resource Key
1977
31
10
Dexter Arts Resource Team, Mobile Resource Center
Archival Resource Key
undated
31
11
Division of Retardation, Boston, Massachusetts
Archival Resource Key
undated
31
12
Goldwater (contact sheets)
Archival Resource Key
1977
31
13
Humanizing Environments: A Primer (photographs for book)
Archival Resource Key
1978
31
14
[Iris]
Archival Resource Key
undated
31
15
[Katie?]
Archival Resource Key
undated
31
16
Leadership Training Program
Archival Resource Key
undated
31
17
Leadership Training Program
Kite Day (contact sheets)
Archival Resource Key
undated
32
1
[Marcia]
Archival Resource Key
undated
32
2
Massachusetts Department of Mental Health, Resource Team
Archival Resource Key
undated
32
3
Open Lab (contact sheets)
Archival Resource Key
undated
32
4
Outdoor Play in Sweden
Archival Resource Key
undated
32
5
Play Center (slides and contact sheets)
Archival Resource Key
1976
32
6
Play Lab
Archival Resource Key
circa 1970s
32
7
Play Lab
Recycle Village (contact sheets)
Archival Resource Key
undated
32
8
[Sue]
Archival Resource Key
undated
32
9
[Till, Steve?]
Archival Resource Key
undated
32
10
Unidentified negatives and contact sheets
Archival Resource Key
undated
32
11
Photographs (unidentified)
Archival Resource Key
1973
32
12-14
Audiovisual Materials
Series 7
Archival Resource Key
1974 - 2004
Scope and Contents
This series contains audio cassettes, 1/2" videocassettes (VHS), a DVD, and one sound disc. Many of the videocassettes document conferences Ostroff presented at or attended.
Audio Cassettes
7.1
Archival Resource Key
1974 - 2003
Conditions Governing Access
Only reference copies of audiovisual materials may be used for research. See repository for details.
[Griselda's class, infants]
Archival Resource Key
1 Cassette tape
1974 - 1974
34
AC1356-OT0001
[Changing Places?]
Archival Resource Key
1 Cassette tape
[1974?]
34
AC1356-OT0002
Evening with Elaine at Project Place
Archival Resource Key
1 Cassette tape
1982 November 14
34
AC1356-OT0003
Elaine Ostroff, keynote address
Archival Resource Key
1 Cassette tape
1990 November 15
34
AC1356-OT0004
Home Modifications, Susan Klein and Elaine Ostroff
Archival Resource Key
1 Cassette tape
1990 November 15
34
AC1356-OT0005
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
Archival Resource Key
1 Cassette tape
1990
34
AC1356-OT0006
CJRT-FM, Open college
Archival Resource Key
1 Cassette tape
1992
34
AC1356-OT0007
Ethics, Architecture and Making of Place
Archival Resource Key
1 Cassette tape
1999 March 21
34
AC1356-OT0008
Elaine Ostroff, Champion of Disability Rights Movement
Archival Resource Key
1 Cassette tape
1999 November
34
AC1356-OT0009
Scope and Contents
Interview by Julie Werb of Newton North High School.
Design for the Lifespan, Tape 1-A
Archival Resource Key
1 Cassette tape
2001 February 21
34
AC1356-OT0010
Design for the Lifespan, Tape 2-A
Archival Resource Key
1 Cassette tape
2001 February 21
34
AC1356-OT0011
Design for the Lifespan, Tape 1-B
Archival Resource Key
1 Cassette tape
2001 February 21
34
AC1356-OT0012
Design for the Lifespan, Tape 2-B
Archival Resource Key
1 Cassette tape
2001 February 21
34
AC1356-OT0013
National Architectural Accreditation Board
Archival Resource Key
1 Cassette tape
2003 November 20
34
AC1356-OT0014
Elaine Ostroff Presentation, National Endowment for the Arts panel
Archival Resource Key
1 Cassette tape
undated
34
AC1356-OT0015
Workplace accommodation, Katie
Archival Resource Key
1 Cassette tape
34
AC1356-OT0016
Design Faculty Seminar, Tape 5
Archival Resource Key
1 Cassette tape
undated
34
AC1356-OT0017
Videotapes
7.2
Archival Resource Key
1993 - 2004
Conditions Governing Access
Only reference copies of audiovisual materials may be used for research. See repository for details.
Universal Design Education Program, colloquium
Archival Resource Key
1993 May 6-7
33
AC1356-OV0001
Access to Design Professions, panel discussion footage
Archival Resource Key
1 Videocassettes (VHS)
2002 November 12
33
AC1356-OV0002
Harn Museum of Art, Elaine Ostroff Lecture Designing for the 21st Century
Archival Resource Key
1 Videocassettes (VHS)
2003 February 4
33
AC1356-OV0003
Misha Black Awards, Royal College of Art, Elaine Ostroff receiving award
Archival Resource Key
1 Videocassettes (VHS)
2004 March 16
33
AC1356-OV0004
Sir Misha Black Awards
Archival Resource Key
1 Videocassettes (VHS)
2004
33
AC1356-OV0005
Design for Accessibility
Archival Resource Key
1 Videocassettes (VHS)
undated
33
AC1356-OV0006
Designing Schools with Universal Design (Iowa)
Archival Resource Key
1 Videocassettes (VHS)
undated
33
AC1356-OV0007
Concrete Change, Building Better Neighborhoods
Archival Resource Key
1 Videocassettes (VHS)
undated
33
AC1356-OV0008
Universal Design Education Program, Searching for Universal Design
Archival Resource Key
1 Videocassettes (VHS)
undated
33
AC1356-OV0009
Elaine Ostroff, Program Accessibility, Atlanta
Archival Resource Key
1 Videocassettes (VHS)
undated
33
AC1356-OV0010
Elaine Ostroff, Program Accessibility, Atlanta, Tape 2
Archival Resource Key
1 Videocassettes (VHS)
undated
33
AC1356-OV0011
The Power of 504
Archival Resource Key
1 Videocassettes (VHS)
undated
33
AC1356-OV0012
Universal Design Education Project Colloquium, Tape 2
Archival Resource Key
1 Videocassettes (VHS)
1993 May 6-7
33
AC1356-OV0013
Scope and Contents
Sessions 2, 3 and 4; Day 1 (part); Day 2
Humanizing environments
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound disc
undated
33
Massachusetts Parks, Access for All
Archival Resource Key
1 Electronic discs (DVD)
undated
33
Elaine Ostroff, Champion of the Disability Rights Movement (transcript)
Archival Resource Key
1999 November 29
32
15
Scope and Contents
Interview conducted by Julia Werb of Newton North High School.