Opportunity: Using playful rehabilitation as a source of meaningful social engagement and empowerment for seniors after physical trauma.
Hippo is intended for seniors experiencing depression following physical trauma and their caregiving family. The focus is to promote creative interactions, that move past memory loss, cognitive degeneration or challenged mobility using their remaining skills. The aim is to provide all the members of the caregiving family a means to understand...
bent wood wrapped with a stunning local species of black walnut.
The water catching ridged cement bottom is a salute to the rainy city of vancover, in harmony with the beautiful outdoors.
Mui is an umbrella holder I produced in co-operation with international designers Hamza Omari and Omar Qubain. We chose the name Mui, because in arabic it means rain.
Mui was sold in a local furniture boutique 18KARAT
This collapsable chair was produced for 18 Karat, a local furniture boutique. Made from locally sourced wood species of Larch with my teamates Omar Qubain and Simona Hruskova. Part of the project was a trip into Nelson, meeting the people that plant, harvest and process our wood, to inform our design.
Asetically we strove for movement, weightlessness created by square legs, echoed by the seat and the back.
