Video: Boring wheelchair? Not the designers
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
It is generally accepted that all people with disabilities are dejected people who have resigned themselves to their misfortune and do not see anything bright and pleasant in life. Not all of us think so, but quite a few. What is left for disabled people, how not to break stereotypes?
Let's make a reservation right away - this idea belongs not to a disabled person, however, to a person who wants to help them. Milan-based designer Sergio Calatroni decided that a wheelchair should not look like we used to see it - gray and dull. Surely, having decorated the chair, you can properly cheer up its owner! But how can this be done? Oh, the designer found a way. Especially for the Italian artist and designer Fabrizio Sclavi, the Milanese figured out how to make his chair brighter and more eye-catching.
To do this, he used the simplest and most familiar things to us - ribbons, buttons, shreds, paints, a wide variety of fabrics and many, many more things. As a result, he got such a lurid chair, which the world has never seen! You look at him and smile, although it would seem that the chair was created for a disabled person, which means that there is nothing funny here. But we are not talking about laughter, but simply about the good mood that is promised to the owner of such a chair. Of course, not everyone will appreciate such an idea. It is one thing to paint crutches, which one day can be thrown away, because fractures heal, but quite another is a chair to which a person can be "chained" from childhood. But the Milanese designer believes that the very appearance of the chair makes you think bad, and this is completely unacceptable! It is not known whether the disabled person himself appreciated such a gift, but he was amazed for sure - after all, not everyone comes up with such ideas. And if they do come, then not everyone dares to embody them - after all, they can misinterpret.
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