We bring together a diverse team of designers, engineers, health professionals, and creative thinkers.
As someone with firsthand experience of a challenge, you’re a “Need-Knower.” Whether you’re living with a disability, a family member, support worker, or health professional, your insight and input are vital to our co-design process. No one knows your needs better than you!
Let us know what you’re facing, and we’ll work with you and a team of volunteers to make a solution tailored to your needs.
How it works
Once we have accepted your challenge, we’ll connect you with a team of passionate volunteer makers who will work with you to ideate, prototype, and do their best to develop a practical solution.
While we can’t design medical tech or anything that might pose a risk to your health or safety, we can help with a wide variety of everyday challenges in hobbies, communication, cooking, art, gardening, and more.
The solution is then published on our website so that anyone can replicate it for themselves.
Frequently Asked Question For Need-Knowers.
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Previous Projects
Previous Need Knower Stories
“They’ve just been awesome, you can tell the effort they’re putting into it, they really want to come up with a solution that works for us [and Malu].
It’s heartwarming. It shows the love they have to help people with disabilities, and to create inclusiveness.”
“It’s nice to have a community around us and people that get it and just want to help make things easier [for him].”
“It’s a way to use my engineering skills to actually make a difference.
[So] to be able to work with people with disabilities and make accessible technology is a really fulfilling and rewarding way to use my skills.
It’s really special to be part of something that brings all these people together.”
“It’s always a very diverse group of very wonderful people coming up with a very weird range of very weird, wonderful and wacky ideas.
It always comes up with ideas that individually I’d never think of, and I love it.”
“It was a great experience, it (the prototype) was certainly what I needed”
“Being able to help someone with a disability by making life a little easier for them & working with expert professionals all with the same goal has been amazing – TOM: Melbourne Makeathon 2019”
“TOM personifies inclusive, creating and collaborative skill sharing… these philosophies weave together seamlessly at the Makeathon”