{"id":223,"date":"2019-04-08T02:39:13","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T06:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/wheelchair\/?page_id=223"},"modified":"2026-04-10T09:38:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T13:38:18","slug":"cohort-2-2013-2014","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/wheelchair\/cohort-2-2013-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Cohort 2: 2013-2014"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Cohort 2: 2013-2014\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>The second cohort of students working on this project included Luis Garcia, Zoe Krug, Jennifer Vandermeer, and Charles William, all of whom took part in this project as a part of their 4th year capstone projects under the supervision of Professor Bjarki Hallgrimsson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a cohort, this group travelled to the Kasese district of Western Uganada in February 2014 with Prof. Hallgrimsson and Navin Parekh, the founder and president of <a href=\"http:\/\/canugan.org\/who\/\">CanUgan<\/a>, to conduct fieldwork and to enrich their understanding of how their designs and products would be used by locals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All of the student projects funded by IDRC assisted the Mobility Lab in moving forward with deeper knowledge of designing for mobility in a rural African context. It was undergraduate student <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/wheelchair\/two-in-one-convertible-wheelchair\/\">Jennifer Vandermeer&#8217;s project<\/a> that the lab decided to pursue further.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A final outcome of this IDRC-funded project was that Jennifer\u2019s project, the two-in one tricycle wheelchair combination product that could be manufactured in the local context, became a primary focus for the future efforts in our laboratory. Our intention to further co-develop an improved mobility product with the local actors allowed us to obtain funding from the Swedish <a href=\"https:\/\/www.promobilia.se\/?lang=en\">Promobilia Foundation<\/a> to continue this important work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The second cohort of students working on this project included Luis Garcia, Zoe Krug, Jennifer Vandermeer, and Charles William, all of whom took part in this project as a part of their 4th year capstone projects under the supervision of Professor Bjarki Hallgrimsson. As a cohort, this group travelled to the Kasese district of Western [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cu_dining_location_slug":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_page_type":[],"class_list":["post-223","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/wheelchair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/wheelchair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/wheelchair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/wheelchair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/wheelchair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/wheelchair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":519,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/wheelchair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/223\/revisions\/519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/wheelchair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_page_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/wheelchair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_page_type?post=223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}