We want to explore how traditional (basket) weaving techniques can be reclaimed by applying them to a gaming chair as a contemporary use case, positioning tradition within contemporary digital youth culture.
-> Can traditional crafting techniques be understood as a form of design knowledge?
-> What happens when we translate these methods into contemporary contexts or materials?
-> And can a chair become a way to connect stories, place, and inherited ways of making?
traditional austrian crafts
sketches
This project explores material culture, local identity, and inherited ways of making through the design of a chair.
We want to do this looking at traditional austrian crafts, without putting focus on nostalgia, or glorifying traditions, as some (right-wing) politicians do but rather in the opposite way.
next steps
furniture scouting (IKEA, möbelmuseum)
trying traditional crafts ourselves -> material experiments
where do we place our chair? is it for one person or several people? and what kind of chair even is it?
