New Potential for disabled people with low-cost assitive technology devices
New Potential for all people in creative craft courses and production
New Potential for recycling materials productively
People Potential Activities
- WORKING TOGETHER - Individuals developing their own strengths in developing new solutions to combat or get around difficulties encountered in everyday living
- Training in designing and manufacture of low-cost assistive disability devices (aids and equipment) and on practical facilitation of child development, particularly designing and making games and toys
- Responding to requests for courses, workshops or in-service training support, worldwide.
- Running short training courses in the UK
- Encouraging creative crafts
- Local Enterprise Workshops on income generation where applicable to People Potential skill areas e.g. starting a small business in toy making or Appropriate Paper-based Technology (APT).
- Preparing teaching and seminar materials and publications.
People Potential Courses
- see APT courses page
Doing related research is an important participatory activity.
Field-testing can take some time -
this Appropriate Paper-based Technology sofa was made in 1989 and is still in use!