Education
The Adaptive Design Association hosts field trips, professional development opportunities through one-day workshops and week-long intensives, corporate opportunities, internships, and custom presentations.
We welcome students, teachers, parents, designers, therapists, and all who are interested in building custom adaptations.
Virtual Visits
Bring the team from Adaptive Design right into your classroom with our virtual visit. ADA offers a virtual visit opportunity for all age groups. During your visit, your group will tour our midtown workshop, meet with our skilled staff of designers and fabricators, therapists, or educators. Participants will engage in discussions around inclusion, person-centered design, accessibility, creativity, and cardboard carpentry. Explore how local and recyclable materials can become chairs, tables, easels, footrests, etc. The virtual experience can be modified to meet your curriculum needs.
Virtual visits are typically 1.5 hour.
Rate: $225
Contact Tamara Morgan at tamara@adaptivedesign.org
Field trips and visits
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The Adaptive Design Association is happy to welcome group and class field trips. Beginning with a guided tour of our studio, groups will meet our fabricators for an in-depth look into how complex custom adaptations are built. During the tour, participants will see, touch, and try unique, fun solutions for improving accessibility. Visitors leave our studio with a deeper understanding of how affordable materials, simple tools, and one’s own creativity can generate solutions that make a difference.
All group field trips are 1.5 hours.
Rate: $250
Contact Tamara Morgan at tamara@adaptivedesign.org
Group Professional Development Workshops
The Adaptive Design Association offers group workshops coordinated by education, rehabilitation, and community-based organizations.
Contact Tamara Morgan at tamara@adaptivedesign.org to learn more about the options available.
Intensive Course
Offered only three times a year, our 30-hour week-long educational intensive is an opportunity for immersive exposure to adaptive design, particularly for those who must travel from a distance. Three days of cardboard carpentry, one day of positioning, and one day of switches/electronics. Can't spare five days? Attend any or all of the courses.
Contact Tamara Morgan at tamara@adaptivedesign.org
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Internships
We welcome volunteers to the Adaptive Design Association through our Summer Internship Program. Our application cycle opens January 15th and closes March 1st, with notification in early April. Please check back for more information.
(Note: During the academic year we only accept internships through co-op and participating accredited programs (social work, occupational therapy, and design) as interns must be placed at ADA four days per week.)
Contact: Tamara Morgan at tamara@adaptivedesign.org
Presentations
We love sharing what we do. If you want something beyond our current offerings, please do not hesitate to contact us at 212/904-1200 or info@adaptivedesign.org.
Online Resource Library
Thirty-four short videos demonstrate cardboard carpentry techniques as used at ADA.
Building with Cardboard manual
For people with experience building things but new to cardboard as a building material. 14 pages