Instructor Interview Collaborating with Clients
GRACE TEO: In terms of choosing our clients there were a few criteria that we were looking for. Other then the fact that they had a disability, you had to have been pretty stable, so it wasn't going to be fluctuating too much over the semester. And that is to make the design constraints a little bit more simple for the students. Apart from a stable disability, I think what we loved about the clients this semester is their motivation to educate our students. Having that intrinsic quality of being an educator was important for us. They had to be able to articulate their challenges really well for the students, and be able to be patient with the students, because they're all learning through this process. And they might not get the design process right the first time. But having clients that were adventurous, willing to try out new things with the students, that was very important. The third piece was purely logistical. So, our students are going to want to interact ...