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Israeli students win prestigious design award for tech to help disabled moms
Sue Surkes is The Times of Israel's environment reporter
Two industrial design students at central Israel’s Holon Institute of Technology receive a Helen Hamlyn Design Award in London from Britain’s prestigious Royal College of Art.
Tamir Keidar and Nimrod Shani worked with a wheelchair-bound mother called Orla to create equipment that connects a wheelchair to a baby carriage, allowing for safe walks out of doors.
The Helen Hamlyn Design Awards recognize “creativity in people-centred, inclusive design across all disciplines,” according to the RCA.
The two students worked within the framework of the Fixperts course run by Prof. Gad Charni at the Holon Institute’s Industrial Design Faculty.
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