INCLUSIVE'AL: Furniture design for paraplegic people

Abstract

While persons with disabilities (PWDs) have always been part of all societies, they have struggled to create space for themselves, for being recognized by the system and above all for being accepted and integrated into mainstream societies. Each year, December 3 is celebrated as the International Day of Persons with Disabilities. Despite being a signatory to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) since 2011, Pakistan has a long way to go before social attitudes towards the PWDs change. According to the 2017 census, 0.48 percent of the population is Pakistan is disabled in one way or another. Even now, people with disabilities are viewed as unhealthy, defective, feared and pitied. People still think of them as incapable of participating in daily life task or contributing to the society fully and they depend on welfare and charitable organizations for their livelihood. The situation is slowly changing in some segments of the society but there is long way to go. People with restricted mobility are unable to perform daily life task without any help or assistance, do it be the simplest task of getting in and out of the bed, using the bathroom or taking a bath, they need help. INCLUSIVE'AL is a solution in the form of a furniture piece. A single bed that converts into a chair for the person to easily get in and out of the bed. The base is divided into three equal parts. The middle section has rollers with are controlled by a gear motor, it is then connected to the top section with an extension. So when the middle section moves, the top part is lifted and the bottom one slides with it, which converts it into a chair, so the person can get out of it easily without even lifting their upper bod