THISABLES

About the Work 1 in 10 people in Israel suffer from serious disabilities, struggling with the most basic home activities: turning on the light, getting up from bed or opening a closet. IKEA’s closets, too, unfortunately. For them, IKEA furniture may be affordable, popular and beautiful - but many times, it’s also unusable. We have developed a range of add-ons conceived to solve the most common problems, and work with the iconic products of IKEA: sofa elevating-legs for easier ascend, lamp button-enlargement, super-zipper for pillows-covers. Thus, we optimized our user experience by simplifying it to the fullest: free and easy download and assemble with IKEA furniture. ThisAbles project hacks the iconic home-furniture giving access to IKEA’s designs in an affordable and easily accessible format: using 3D printed, open-source solutions. To make it truly accessible, we made the add-ons completely free: open-source, available to 3D print, from anywhere in the world. Additionally, to make it even easier we added a full web-series of video-tutorials. For those who wished to experience the products up close, we opened the first-ever accessible space, in the IKEA stores.