Edwards conceptualizes The Familyworks Project: a proposed study to examine the impact of design on childcare delivery; it grew out of her consulting work, training teachers and daycare providers. Developing the project reveals dramatic voids in the literature, the research and the understanding on environments for children - the misunderstanding and ignorance on this subject proves to be widespread. Thus funding for project cannot be obtained.

The need for CHILDESIGN is clear.

• Incorporate as a nonprofit organization.
• Apply for 501(C)3 status.
• Publish first article, in Childcare Action News.
• Edwards becomes a contributing editor of ID Magazine to disseminate CHILDESIGN's design ideas.
• Accepts commission from Design Publications to write a book, Office Systems, to create a voice within the industry that CHILDESIGN could then use on behalf of children. It also enables Edwards to research an area of design she sees as relevant to CHILDESIGN's investigations and interests.

• "Sensitive Play Spaces" published in ID Magazine, officially introducing CHILDESIGN's new approach to the design community.

• Full-time CHILDESIGN operations (networking and Advocacy) resume. Edwards' second book, Product Design 2, is published.
• KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Form One Conference in NY to an audience of 400 architects & designers.

• Research tours to Scandinavia mark beginning of Scandinavian Child Project. Extensive consultation with Cultural and Trade Commissions and with Scandinavian designers and companies.
• Hasbro sponsors CHILDESIGN to organize Around Children, a lecture for the IDSA Design Narrative Series. Edwards lectures at multiple trade shows as well.
• Consultations with the Human Factors Society and extensive behind the scenes consultation with the media.
• First hospital consultation.
• Article appears in Wall Street Journal.

• Speaker, BUY Design Conference.
• Edwards asked to join Board of the Alexander Julian Foundation for Aesthetic Understanding and Appreciation.
• CHILDESIGN's inaugural exhibitions open as the featured exhibitions for the AIA Convention and the WORLDESIGN Conference:
  • Scandinavian Child: Designs from Norway, Sweden and Finland
  • Utmarkt Svensk Form

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