A Laboratory of
Design Research and Training through
Extension Services for Accessibility in
Design and Architecture

The ADAPTSE lab is specialized in scientific investigations and philosophical explorations about environmental accessibility and usability of the built environment for well-being of all, particularly, people with uncommon abilities and peculiar personal characteristics.

It is an academic center of the Department of Design Projects of the Escola de Arquitetura at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. The ADAPTSE lab's experts develop resources for activities in the academic community. Among ADAPTSE goals there is providing support to development and application of educational strategies about universal design such as courses, publications, technical articles, exemplar design ideas and models, workshops, and multi-medial presentations.

Furthermore, ADAPTSE develops community services through specialized studies for assessments and planning for built environments. It promotes universal design, considering it the means of achieving an inclusive society for all and eliminating negative images of disability and aging processes in social and cultural manifestations.