FysiekFabriek

What if you don't have access to the tools you need for an independent life?

This is a challenge people with a physical disability face daily! Designers Aurore Brard and Lotte de Haan acted on this challenge and created a service and working method to realise tailored assisted-living aids in co-creation. They teamed up with the organisation Fokus, their clients, employees, and the local network, to respond together to the gap in the health aid provision. They have been collaborating for nearly 2 years to found the solid basis for this social scalable innovation. Now FysiekFabriek realises tailor-made tools by connecting people with a physical disability, care providers and the local creative and making industry. Together they work from an obstacle in the daily life of people with a physical disability to a solution that fits! This turns the immediate request for help into a possibility for participative solution development, grows and strengthens local networks and brings mutual understanding and pleasure to the process.

Meet the participants

In FysiekFabriek 9 tailored assisted living aids have been defeloped by co-creation groups of people with a physical disability, caretakers, and makers. These are successful and tangible outcomes of beautiful collaborations. However, the intangible outcomes of FysiekFabriek are the mindsets that change during the process and the new network which is created is at least as important if not more. Therefore, some of the participants will be present during the exhibition to talk about their experience in FysiekFabriek. Meet them at the show! Saturday October 16 11:30 - 13:30 // Marianne Verbruggen // Project: Cookie Machine #2 14:00 - 16:00 // Marieke van Gastel // Project: Cookie Machine #1 Monday October 18 11:30 - 13:30 // Marieke van Gastel, Jelmer van de Koolwijk and Raymond de Bruijn (makers) // Project: Cookie Machine #1 Tuesday October 19 12:00 - 14:00 // Bianca Mastenbroek and Iris Hendriks // Project: Warmth Vest Thursday October 21 13:30- 15:30 // Han de Laat // Project: Portable Schans (Han's Schans) Saturday October 23 14:00 - 16:00 // Bianca Mastenbroek // Project Warmth Vest Sunday 24 October 14:00 - 16:00 // Marianne Verbruggen // Project: cookie machine #2

FysiekFabriek was impossible to do without

For the past two years, the designers Aurore and Lotte have worked together with an incredible group of motivated people (and two dogs). They deserve a special place on this website: Participants FysiekFabriek 2020 Frank - Challenger, Lucas - Maker, Brigitte - Caregiver, Han - Challenger, Stan - Maker, Tineke - Maker, Bert - Challenger, Kees - Maker, Bert - Challenger, Tineke - Maker, Rob - Maker, André - Maker, Jelmer - Maker, Raymond - Maker, Steffie - Teacher FontysPulsed, Esther - Caregiver, Monique - Caregiver, Isabelle - Caregiver, Martijn - Caregiver, Wout - Maker, Henk - Challenger, Marieke and Bolan - Challenger, Baanbrekers social workplace - Makers Participants PhysicalFactory 2021 Diana and service dog Osja - Challenger, Edwin & Milou, Tienvierstudio - Makers,Cimmy-Lou - Caregiver, Rob - Challenger, Jelgo - Caregiver, Joris - Maker, Bianca - Challenger, Iris - Caregiver, Kim & Nicola ObjectDensity - Makers, Giada - Workshop and communication assistant, Rens - Open source technician, Marianne en Rene Henk Ambassadors Ismail, Rene, Lucette, Sara, Annemarie, Gonnie, Mike, Oscar, Arne, Isabelle Volunteers Charlotte and Reitze