There are many things we consider simple. We tend to take them for granted just because they come naturally to us: breathing properly, watching the sunrise, listening to our favorite songs.
In the end, we realize that there are people in the world, many even around us, who find these "simple" things a challenge, because they experience conditions of difficulty and discomfort that prevent them from doing them as easily as we do.
Some simple things can only come from difficult people
This is what T'ROI is for. It is a comfortable looking chair whose main feature is the extended arms. That's all? Already. This light step will actually help the elderly or people with infirmities to sit and stand up without needing assistance from other people.
The designer Sarah Hossli developed T'ROI with the help of residents of Generationehaus Neubad, a retirement home in Basel, Switzerland. Here they are: you can see them carrying out the "tests" on the product :)
Here, however, you will find some passages from "simple" ideas to the creation of T'ROI, both in a single version and adapted to multiple uses and multiple scenarios.
This is why I love when people make up and draw things with the collaboration of those who really experience difficulties.
We all need help: alone, "simple" things like this chair often don't even occur to us.
