Team 4

sketches panel placement + shapes

inspiration photos

AI visualizations

shape of panels – tryouts

2nd session: keep the metal frame as it is!

cleaning metal frame

Sketches: Arm Rests + 5-star Base (wood)

Talk Matthias

• polyester filler for metal frame
• tilting mechanism (fake wood or 3d printed)

Next Steps

• Wood Workshop: panels 3rd June
• Meeting with Dieroff: 29th May

• Figure out 5-star base (sketches + try outs)
• Figure out design of tilting mechanism cover

disassembling of gaming chair

sketches panel placement + shapes

metal frame

panel tryouts

updated mood board

preparing for welding

AI visualizations

questions:

• arm rests
• tilting mechanism
• color -> black frame + …?

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.

WHAT MAKES A GAMING CHAIR A GAMING CHAIR?

SKETCHES

PLAN BIS DESIGN FREEZE

• mehr sketches
• material test

recap of midterms – questions

meetings during easter break

try outs

childhood as material

viennese locations as chairs

viennese coffee chairs used differently

where we are at now

austrian craftmansip – our ancestors furniture

-> 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?

new idea: hyperlocal design classic