final design:
Building Process!
Bending metal:
connection part of chair legs:
seating plate:
Metal plate:
drawing mechanism:
current state
(legs need to be cut on both ends tho)
2025W No More BS Futures
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“Backspace”
Feedback 09.06.26
Shape of front legs changed to follow the rest of the chair
Templates for router:
Manufacturing Steps
Next up:
last hardware store visit
Rough cutting in Workshop on friday
Finished shapes and assembly during following week
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Tutorials (09.06)pf
Persian seating
A new perspective (Hope and Despair)
Sketching
Prototyping
Material
Foam
Coating
- Fiberglass + epoxy resin + Filter
- Cement-based coating
Internal wooden box
Any kind of stable wood
Next steps:
- Fix the design flaws
- Figure out the attachment technique
- Ask Team 8 about their material
- Purchase the material
- Start building
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Toturials (05.06)
Where we left off
Tryout
Decision making part
Final decision
Mirrors
Materials
Next steps
- Contacting the metal workshop
- finalizing the design
- Purchasing the materials
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Open Desk Tutorial 30.04
Excursion Neusiedler See – Reed harvester & roof builder
Reed roofs at Neusiedler See
Meeting w. Eva Seiler
Making decisions
3D model – metal workshop – measuring
Visiting der Kleine Stadtfarm
since 1970’s – first bio farm in Vienna
+5500 m2
21 initiatives
+500 participants
Possible exhibiting space -> School area
“Learning Under the Stars” promotes nature-based and experiential learning for students of the ILB (Integrative Learning Workshop Brigittenau).
Our aim is to reconnect children with the local flora and fauna and provide them with fundamental experiences in nature. Through hands-on, process-oriented projects, students learn to take responsibility and develop their social skills.
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Tutorials (24.04)
WHERE WE WERE
WHERE WE ARE NOW
- A playable structure: An interactive chair system based on conflict and consequence
- Based on the story of Zahhak
- Focus on transformation through choices
- The ending of the story changes through choices
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THE GAME
- The game explores the story through interactions.
- There are 4 characters divided into 2 teams:
Team 1: Zahhak (The king) Ahriman (The Devil)
Team 2 : Kaveh (The blacksmith) Fereydun (The Defeater)
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CORE MECHANICS
- Two teams build separate structures with pieces and joints
- Teams take turns
- Players can Add/ Remove/ Modify pieces
- Constant tension/ Decision making:
Build your structure or Weaken the opponent
- The chairs cannot function simultaneously, the team who completes and stabilizes their chair first, wins
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CHARACTER ABILITIES
- Zahhak (The king): Can add 1 piece OR take 2 pieces
- Ahriman (The devil): Can add 1 piece OR block a connection point
- Kaveh (The blacksmith): Can take one piece OR add 1 piece + repair a taken piece
- Fereydun (The defeater): Can take 1 piece OR lock 1 pieces
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PIECES AND JOINTS
- Each team receives its own set of structural pieces and connectors / joints
- Cow horn joints: one shared element between both teams
- They are necessary to complete the structure
- Creating direct conflict over completion
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TRY OUTS
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NEXT STEPS
- Play testing the game + improvement
- contacting the experimental game culture department
- Working on the design of the chair
- Making prototypes
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Tutorial 15.04.26
Mail exchanges
Zoom call 13.04 with Laura Waldner, Entomologist at Landmuseum Kärnten
Another meeting planned 15.04 (today!) w. Eva Seiler (Skulptur & Raum, human and non-human)
Field trips during the holidays
Community gardens w. insect hotels, Wolfganggasse (biodiversity project), Donau Insel (Imkerverrein)
Material Experiments
Experimenting w. free crocheting, natural coatings, clay, reed & tufting
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3D Modelling
Next steps
Model development
Reed roof? -> Material dependent
2 models = 2 options
focus on overall structure
next week 2 models ready + meeting at metal workshopLocation
Possibility -> Donau Insel Imkerverrein
Other possibilities -> Wild Bee association Wien, Wolfganggasse, Biodiversity corridors Wien, Uni Wien Cooperation -
Team 8 feedback 1
1. Inspiration
∙ Performance, material, and reading as starting points
∙ The chair as an object of exploration and interaction
∙ Speculative redesign of everyday objects through bio-based processes
2. Waste & Material
∙ Objects as part of a natural waste and growth cycle
∙ Grown from natural materials → decomposing back into soil
∙ Use of raw, minimally processed materials
∙ Co-creation with materials: the unpredictability of growth as a stylistic and design device
3. Labor & Production
∙ Artisanal objects serve a small elite; industrial production offers wider availability but exploits workers
∙ Question: how can production be both accessible and non-exploitative?
∙ Growing as an alternative production model beyond human labor
4. Availability & Access
∙ Community hubs and trading stations as a distribution model
∙ Question: do objects need longevity if they can be produced without labor?
∙ Decentralised, collective infrastructure for production and distribution
5. Form & Sitting
∙ Material exploration: growing material into molds
∙ Testing molds made from different materials
∙ Reusing and integrating every part of the process
∙ More-than-human sitting → interspecies resting
6. Process & Visibility
∙ Making the process visible: showing and using every object involved
∙ The molds themselves as part of the project narrative
∙ Circular thinking: no object remains invisible or is discarded
