recap of midterms – questions
meetings during easter break
[stock image]
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?
