ELINOR TAL
Industrial Designer
Garden Tool Grip for Thala.
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-3D Printed PLA.
Year / 2019
Development Process
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As part of a fourth-year project, in collaboration with FIXPERTS organization and ALYN Hospital
in Jerusalem for children with disabilities, my project partner and I were given the opportunity
to help a lovely 11-year-old girl named Thala.
Thala lost her fingers as a result of a fire, and our goal was to design a solution for her to "hold" tools so she could work in the therapeutic garden in the hospital.
We worked with her to create a special grip for holding her tools so that she can work
comfortably and independently in the garden.
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the project took part in the 2019 "Broken Nature" exhibit at Milan's Triennale Museum.
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It also won the RCA Helen Hamlyn Fixperts Award for 2019
in London and became part of their permanent collection.
“I think they did a great job, as trying to replicate fine motor skills of the human hand
(even to a degree) is extremely difficult.
They showed great user testing, included the failures in iteration, and came up with a very usable product”.
Jonathan West, Research Fellow
For more information:
https://fixing.education/winner-announced-for-royal-college-of-art-helen-hamlyn-awards-2019
http://fixing.education/broken-nature-milan-2019
INSTRUCTABLES link -
https://www.instructables.com/id/Garden-Tool-Grip-for-Fingerless-Hand/
YOUTUBE link -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xy0LXaYuA6o
Design process and models
