ADA 1.0: Open Style Lab x Eray/Carbajo
As a researcher at Open Style Lab, a non-profit committed to making style accessible to people with disabilities, I teamed up with the award-winning architecture and design studio Eray/Carbajo (now SOUR studio) to fabricate and present the ADA 1.0: the first prototype of a sustainable, gender- and race-neutral body mannequin that is also inclusive of disabled bodies.
ADA 1.0 was created as a call to action for the fashion industry to make retail more inclusive of disabled people, which are one of the largest minority groups in the world. ADA 1.0 can be adjusted into different postures that resemble wheelchair users, arm and leg amputees, and people with hunched backs caused by aging, injury. or illness.
The prototype of ADA 1.0 was created with laser cut plywood that was later assembled by hand. We envision that ADA 1.0 can be manufactured by repurposing scrap wood leftover from industrial processes as a way to source materials sustainably and responsibly.
