I
have my own room for the first time since coming to college, and I don’t have
any seating for guests to sit on when they visit my room. This is not just my
problem, but a thought that crosses anyone’s mind when they want to invite
people to hangout in their room. People are more likely to stay and relax if a
chair invites them into the room. If no seating exists, they feel like they
don’t belong and usually shortly leave. I’m interested in the social psychology
of what makes a chair “inviting” and exploring many kinds of seating
arrangements that can stand alone or be connected to create a large seating
arrangement. In addition, in your early twenties, you are constantly moving from
dorm to dorm, from apartment to apartment and rooms are generally small. I’d
like to create a seating arrangement that can be easily built and taken apart
and that has a space efficient form.
I am
inspired by nomadic furniture, and I want to create a wooden seating structure
that can be easily transported, space efficient when taken apart and very
functional. I’m interested in exploring wooden furniture made from pieces that
are connected by slits. My medium of choice is wood because I love how wood
feels like and looks like. My vision is having a modular seating arrangement a
person can take apart one piece to sit on separately, or can connect a bunch of
pieces to create something more like a bench arrangement.
Here
are some links that inspired me:
Idea 1: seating arrangement,
modular stools, bench, etc.
Where? Bedroom, dorm room
Function? Easy to transport/take
apart/build, seats multiple people, multiple sizes/formations
Who? People who live in tight spaces
or move a lot or like to be space efficient
Plan
of Action (not in any particular order)
·
Talk
to people about: what makes a chair inviting, what features are important to
people for let’s say a “dorm room” chair, how do people choose where to sit
when they enter a room? Social rooms vs. not social rooms
·
Explore
woodworking, find woodworking resources
·
Do
research about types of wood
·
Prototyping
probably in foam core or cardboard
·
go
from here.
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