Wheelchair Maintenance Workshop
Two organizations out of Portland have partnered to bridge the gap between the wheelchair and bike communities, Bike Farm and Oregon Spinal Cord Injury Connection. We've applied the DIY/DIT ethos of bicycle cooperatives to wheelchair maintenance to empower users to do their own maintenance, in order to help them build power outside of the for-profit medical world. We also work to build a distributed network of bikeshops in Portland that are comfortable servicing wheelchairs, in order to give wheelchair users more options when they need a quick fix. In this workshop we will give a presentation on our mission, our monthly series in Portland and the adaptations we have made to this series the past 2 years it has been in operation. We will also discuss the challenges we have faced in setting up this workshop series and how other cooperatives might go about initiating a similar series in their own city. We will also cover the most common and recurring aspect of maintenance with a simple demonstration on how to clean out caster wheels.
Presenters: Alison Percifield (she/her), West Livaudais (he/him) and Tyler Stolt (he/they), Aaron Farquhar (he/him)
Langues
anglais
Thèmes
Approche communautaire