Singapore Building and Construction Authority Singapore Building and Construction Authority Universal Design Mark Award

The Singapore Building and Construction Authority awarded its first Universal Design Mark Award to 26 building with exemplary universal design features. The awards Platinum winners are Reflections at Keppel Bay, a private residential development, and the United World College of South East Asia (East Campus). Introduced in October 2012, the BCA Universal Design Mark Award is a voluntary certification system that encourages building owners, developers and architects to include or retrofit their buildings and developments with Universal Design features.

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Group of people talking at event in Russia with text IHCD updates Institute for Human Centered Design Newsletter: May 2013 Edition

The Institute for Human Centered Design (IHCD) is an international non-profit organization committed to advancing the role of design in expanding opportunity and enhancing experience for people of all ages and abilities through excellence in design. Our educational, consulting and design work is very diverse. See our monthly newsletter to learn about current projects.

IAUD Award 2013: Call for Entries IAUD Award 2013: Call for Entries

The IAUD Award 2013 will recognize groups and individuals who have conducted or proposed particularly noteworthy activities aimed at realizing a universally design society in which everyone - regardless of age, gender, nationality, ethnicity, culture, customs, or other factors - can live comfortably, without feeling any undue in convenience

Deadline for the initial selection: May 31, 2013

Deadline for the second selection: July 31, 2013

Find out more information about IAUD Award 2013

Disability in Sport logo Solidarity in Sport Website is Live: A Platform for Inclusion, Equality and Dignity in Sport

We are excited to announce that the Solidarity in Sport Pledge now has a home. Please come visit us at http://www.solidarityinsport.org!

 

The Solidarity in Sport Pledge (SISP) is a global grassroots movement to promote equality in sport. The pledge emphasizes inclusion, equality, and dignity for all athletes. By joining forces we are using our collective voice to stamp out exclusion, inequality, and stigma. We seek to make this change now!

US Department of Housing and Urban Development Fair Housing Accessibility Trainings for May

May 7, 2013 - Denver, Colorado

May 14, 2013 - Kansas City, Missouri

May 23, 2013 - Boston, Massachusetts

May 30, 2013 - Richmond, Virginia

User experts working at IHCD. A call for User/Experts - make a difference and earn a stipend for your time and expertise!

The Institute for Human Centered Design (IHCD) is creating a new User/Expert Lab in our Boston headquarters and is currently seeking to recruit user/experts to be part of our participant database and on-call for design research projects.