Clair Bois - Inclusive Table
The Clair Bois – Inclusive Table project brought together students, assistants, and professionals around an inclusive design initiative responding to concrete social needs. The aim was to design and build a series of tables for the restaurants of the Clair Bois Foundation, a Geneva-based NGO that welcomes residents with multiple disabilities, their relatives, and healthcare professionals in a shared and dignified space.
Moving away from the conventional codes of paramedical furniture, the team adopted a sensitive, human-centered approach combining comfort, autonomy, and aesthetics. The resulting table features a height-adjustable mechanism operated by a manual hand crank, allowing smooth adaptation for wheelchair users while ensuring comfort for all.
The tabletop was crafted from locally sourced solid wood—walnut, maple, cherry and oak—processed in the school’s wood workshops, where students explored each stage of production. Developed through a participatory process with Clair Bois residents, the final form evokes tree stumps, encouraging flexible seating and referencing the organic character of wood.
