CrossingDesign: Use and Create Accessible

This project is motivated by the reflection on the difficult access of diversely functional people to the different support products that, during their lives, facilitate their participation in every way. Economic issues, the rapid aging of products, and the evolution of their needs are the main reasons why looking for, counting with, the appropriate adjustments might turn out to be an annoying consumption of time, money and patience. We propose the creation of a physical and virtual space where technical knowledge, experience and the needs of the user can meet in order to design and produce a personalized product, made of alternative and low-cost materials. The project is thought in the long term, the objective of this first stage is to work on 4 products of different characteristics in order to analyze the response to the multiple necessities of people with diverse functionality.