Too Wheel-Opensource Wheelchair

Fabrizio Alessio

Torino, Italy

Professional Group

Fabrizio Alessio is a freelance designer and a lecturer. He usually works on projects about product design, concept development and batch production and model making. He’s assistant professor at Industrial Design University at Politecnico of Turin, and freelance teacher of digital fabrication, 3D modeling and 3D printing, opensource culture and innovation management. He received the “Compasso d'oro-targa giovani” in 2016 of the Italian Association of Design, one of the most important design prizes in the world.

《Too Wheel - Opensource Wheelchair》

Category | Product and Industrial Design: Product Design

Group | Professional

TooWheels is an opensource wheelchair project for people with disability designed to be completely DIY everywhere in the world, with custom dimension and local materials. The project is born as sport wheelchair but is evolving to answer different needs, due to the users and the community involved in the project.

From India to Ecuador, across Italy we are developing a maker's answer to the needs of people with disability in collaboration with many partners and the FIBA (the Italian national federation for sport with disability). 

You can download files and instructions of the project from the website, customize it for your size, and make the wheelchair at home or using digital fabrication machinery if you are close to a FabLab. Taking part in the project you can cut down the cost of 10 times!