Deka-Hotch: A Cardboard Fastener for Use at Disaster Sites

Fab Lab Kuriyama, a makerspace in Kuriyama Town, Yubari District, Hokkaido, and the Hokkaido Care and Welfare School have been running a joint project under the concept of "making x care and welfare" since FY2021, as part of a seminar activity for second-year students called Community Issues Research. In FY2023, under the theme "Changing Disaster Awareness Through Making," students imagined the school being used as an evacuation shelter, found problems and issues through a survey of the school, and solved them through making, using digital fabrication technology. What we made this time is "Deka-Hotch," a cardboard fastening tool. Using the cardboard boxes in which school equipment, consumables and stockpiled food are packed, anyone can easily assemble furniture such as beds and sofas.

[3D Printed Self-Help Device Design Contest 2024 Passed First Round of Selection] Entry details: https://fabble.cc/ictrehabilitationresearchlab/deca-hotch