Smart-Fit-In, a project began in 2014, aimed at developing specially adapted and personalized products for people with restricted mobility, the two designers became aware of the innovation forum Adapted Fashion. And now, German design studio Leipzig sports fashion design studio eiermann+hattenkerl, in partnership with Biehler Sportswear have developed the first-ever optimized prototype collection. It is for the first team of the Elxleben wheelchair basketball club ‘RSB Thuringia Bulls’.
In last 12 years, the number of members in the German Disabled Sports Association has nearly doubled. The product development was based on the extensive data generated by the Hohenstein Institute in Boennigheim as part of a research project on optimizing sportswear for wheelchair users. As part of research project, the scientists at the Hohenstein Institute measured wheelchair users digitally in a stationary 3D body scanner and, using a portable hand scanner, in their sports wheelchair.