Open Style Lab: Difference between revisions

Content deleted Content added
rm nonnotable award
Added {{COI}} tag
Line 1:
{{Multiple issues|
{{orphan|date=September 2019}}
{{COI|date=July 2023}}
 
}}
'''Open Style Lab''' (OSL) is a [[nonprofit organization]] that was launched in 2014, initially as a public service project at the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]]. The nonprofit's executive director and board president is Grace Jun.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Macias|first=Melba|date=2021-02-03|title=Open Style Lab Puts Great Design Within Reach|url=https://enablingdevices.com/blog/open-style-lab-puts-great-design-within-reach/|access-date=2021-11-25|website=Enabling Devices|language=en-US}}</ref> The organization designs and produces [[adaptive clothing]] and products, with and for people with disabilities.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/nonprofit-merges-hi-tech-high-fashion-make-clothes-people-disabilities-n800731|title=Nonprofit merges hi-tech and high fashion to make clothes for people with disabilities|website=NBC News|date=14 September 2017 |language=en|access-date=2019-05-19}}</ref> The group invites designers, engineers, and occupational therapists from across the globe to work together to solve a real-life problem with an adaptive clothing solution. The program was replicated at [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]] International Design Center <ref>{{Cite web|last=Miller|first=Meg|date=2016-08-15|title=The MIT Lab That's Quietly Pioneering Fashion For Everyone|url=https://www.fastcompany.com/3062726/the-mit-lab-thats-quietly-pioneering-fashion-for-everyone|access-date=2021-11-25|website=Fast Company|language=en-US}}</ref> and at [[Parsons School of Design]] at [[The New School]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2016/08/120576/mit-open-style-lab-summer-program-2016|title=Why Some Of The Country's Best & Brightest Spent The Summer Designing Clothes|last=Ilyashov|first=Alexandra|website=www.refinery29.com|language=en|access-date=2019-05-19}}</ref>