{"id":304,"date":"2019-04-17T17:20:12","date_gmt":"2019-04-17T21:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/wheelchair\/?page_id=304"},"modified":"2026-04-10T15:17:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T19:17:30","slug":"assistive-gardening-device","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/wheelchair\/assistive-gardening-device\/","title":{"rendered":"Assistive Gardening Device (Luis Garcia)"},"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-max  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n        \n                    \n                    \n            \n    <div class=\"cu-wideimage relative flex items-center justify-center mx-auto px-8 overflow-hidden md:px-16 rounded-xl not-prose  my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 bg-opacity-50 bg-cover bg-cu-black-50 py-24 md:py-28 lg:py-36 xl:py-48\" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/carleton.ca\/wheelchair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/232\/Garden-768x336.png); background-position: 50% 50%;\">\n\n                    <div class=\"absolute top-0 w-full h-screen\" style=\"background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.600);\"><\/div>\n        \n        <div class=\"relative z-[2] max-w-4xl w-full flex flex-col items-center gap-2 cu-wideimage-image cu-zero-first-last\">\n            <header class=\"mx-auto mb-6 text-center text-white cu-pageheader cu-component-updated cu-pageheader--center md:mb-12\">\n\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold mb-2 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] cu-pageheader--center text-center mx-auto after:left-px\">\n                        Assistive Gardening Device (Luis Garcia)\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                            <\/header>\n        <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    \n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/wheelchair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/232\/Luis_FinalBoard-LR.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"478\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/wheelchair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/232\/Luis-Poster-240x478.png\" alt=\"Poster for Design is.. Topic Rolling Gardening Chair\" class=\"wp-image-322\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/wheelchair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/232\/Luis-Poster-240x478.png 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/wheelchair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/232\/Luis-Poster-160x319.png 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/wheelchair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/232\/Luis-Poster-400x797.png 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/wheelchair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/232\/Luis-Poster-360x718.png 360w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/wheelchair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/232\/Luis-Poster.png 622w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Rolling Gardening Chair Poster<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In rural Uganda, 86% of the population rely on subsistence agriculture to feed themselves. People living with disabilities in rural Uganda often struggle to find enough food to survive on, particularly when the task of growing their own crops is full of accessibility barriers. Luis Garcia undertook a project to assist with this problem, endeavouring to design a mobility device specifically to be used for gardening while disabled. The end result is a rolling gardening chair, designed and developed in conjunction with Ugandan craftsman, Kio, and a user tester based in Uganda, Mark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/wheelchair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/232\/Luis-FinalReport_DesignWithUganda-Low-Res.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"310\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/wheelchair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/232\/Luis-Garcia-Report-240x310.png\" alt=\"Poster for Design with Canada. with Rolling Gardening chair.\" class=\"wp-image-321\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/wheelchair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/232\/Luis-Garcia-Report-240x310.png 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/wheelchair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/232\/Luis-Garcia-Report-160x206.png 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/wheelchair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/232\/Luis-Garcia-Report-768x991.png 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/wheelchair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/232\/Luis-Garcia-Report-400x516.png 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/wheelchair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/232\/Luis-Garcia-Report-360x464.png 360w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/wheelchair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/232\/Luis-Garcia-Report.png 862w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Design with Uganda: Rolling Gardening Chair Report<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The rolling gardening chair features a 360 degree rotating chair, a basket holder for collecting crops, a front-wheel steering system, and a propulsion mechanism that functioned with a lever and crank so the chair could move through soft garden soil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In rural Uganda, 86% of the population rely on subsistence agriculture to feed themselves. People living with disabilities in rural Uganda often struggle to find enough food to survive on, particularly when the task of growing their own crops is full of accessibility barriers. 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