“Do we as designers still need to design new chairs?”
“Husse” (Chair cover)
We are NOT designing the elevated structure, where you put the weight of your body…
…but we are designing a chair.
A chair is not just a physical construction, it’s a way to express yourself and a tool that allows you to make a place your own.
Where are we designing this chair?
We have chosen the context of park benches to deal with following question:
“Who owns public space?”
Project references
- Doris Salcedo
- Joseph Kosuth “one and three chairs”
- Christo and Jeanne-Claude
Next steps
- Tryouts with fabric, stuffing material and different fabric-techniques
- Where can we get our material?
- How can we exhibit a project like this? Video, Photo,…
- Long term: Is it gonna be a “tool” or installation
Why is this design investigations?
Design Investigations is about asking questions.
Our project questions the traditional industrial design-view of what a chair design has to contain:
an elevated structure, where you put the weight of your body
Investigating the meaning of a chair through a sett of chair covers also have an element of absurdity that we want to delve into.
By placing the chairs in a public park, Stadtpark, we take a position at the same time as we ask the question who owns public space?
