Taran Kaur
TableDoor
It is necessary for every person to have specific life skills for their daily lives. How can we add more workshops in the organization's space to help these homeless women develop these powerful skills?
"Changing lives, one woman at a time"
That is the slogan of Sistering - an organization that helps women from all across Toronto that may be suffering homelessness or are at risk of becoming one. Their group is diverse as they help women from anywhere between ages of 16 to 80+. These women are affected by many things like mental health issues, trauma, and violence.
Insight
Daily life skills are mandatory because they help you with important daily tasks like communicating, and managing your finances. They provide you with power to control your lie and to be better. Adding more space will enable these women to learn these set of skills that will also teach them how to work together as a group and better themselves in life. They will learn how to interact with different people from day to day. They will also learn self confidence after being helpless for a long time. Providing them more space, is providing them with more power.
Idea
TableDoor was invented because of a specific big table at Sistering. This table can not be moved and the room is also filled with many small tables that take up lot of space. In order to have more floor space, small tables need to be removed. The big table has a lot of room for storage underneath. The idea of this project is to have a storage cabinet underneath this table; the doors of this cabinet can be removed and used as tables whenever needed. When you don't need them, just place them back on as doors of the cabinet.
Impact
The impact of this idea would be that Sistering would have more floor space to keep the icebreakers that teach communications, activities that teach confidence, and other mandatory workshops to teach them other skills like dancing, yoga, karate and many others that would provide these homeless women with power and benefit them to handle themselves in the outside world.
Biography
Taran Chhabra is a designer in progress. Studying at OCAD University has drawn her more towards designing for the world.
She's also working with many of her local clients to sell some of her designs. She believes in designing something that would be valuable to the end user. Value means everything to her whether it's emotions, or affordability.
When she's not designing, you'll find her hanging out with her friends or giving some time to her family. There's also a 90% chance that she'll be at someone's house practising for a dance performance. Yes, she loves dancing.