Timothy stands tall among his cohort at the School of Art, Design & Media. Born with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, the 27-year-old has been in a wheelchair since 13. Timothy candidly tells us that he is the “worrying kind”, yet he rose to the challenge while he was at Ngee Ann Polytechnic. When he had complained then about the archaic design of his wheelchair, his occupational therapist said: “Why don’t you design a better one?” Bells went off and Timothy set out to create a wheelchair he would love to use. His final-year project at NTU is an improved version of that wheelchair named QUADOM. He attributes the futuristic wheelchair to his lecturer, Mr Jeffrey Hong. Timothy had originally wanted to work on a personal mobility device like a hoverboard, but Mr Hong advised him to redesign the wheelchair instead. “It was a no-brainer for him,” says Timothy, who has also created artwork inspired by X-ray images of his own body.