A Project from BAU That Removes Barriers

With the "My Colorful Wheels" Project, designed within the Technical Departments of the Vocational School, Bahçeşehir University aims to provide a better quality of life for people with disabilities who cannot buy a wheelchair suited to their disability by designing wheelchairs that meet their individual needs, taking into account their physical condition and living conditions.

The project, carried out by Bahçeşehir University Lecturer İnci Zaim Gökbay and Vocational School Technical Department students, aimed to offer solutions to the problems people with disabilities experience with standard wheelchairs.

The volunteers who wished to take part in the project were carefully selected by the Foundation for the Physically Disabled (FEV). The industrial experience students needed to design all details accurately and make them ready for production was provided by the Machine Tools Industrialists and Businessmen Association (TIAD). The project was carried out meticulously within the university-industry-NGO triangle, and 4 wheelchair designs were completed and delivered to the volunteers in 2 years.