About
À propos
This is the blog of the “Rebellious Chairs” workshop, a collaboration between École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs and the MIT Media Lab’s High-Low Tech group.
In this 5 day workshop we are rethinking the relationship between people and chairs and designing new expressive interactions. Using electronics and innovative materials as well as more traditional crafts, we try to bring the chair to life, allowing it to have its own behaviour.
The blog is used for documentation of the classes, presentations and design process of the students projects.
The Workshop Brief
The Great Chair Resistance
We’ve been sitting on chairs for 27,000 years. Now they’ve had enough. A small group of chairs has gone rogue, cast off its shackles, and asserted a new rebellious identity. They will no longer be merely chairs, to be used and ignored.
Chairs are standing up for their rights! A new relationship that is truly reciprocal must be reached, if we’re to ever sit happily (together) again.
Design a chair that demands its rights!
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… en français:
La grande révolte des chaises!
Nous nous sommes assis sur des chaises depuis les 27,000 dernières années. Maintenant, elles en ont marre de nous!
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People
Workshop teachers
• Jennifer Jacobs
• Samuel Jacoby
• Dana Gordon
• Élisabeth de Senneville
• Patrick Renaud
Physical construction & realisation
• The Morphostructue Laboratory (Xavier & Martin)
Arduino support
• Antonin Fourneau
Participating students
• Estelle Meissonnier
• Ornella Coffi
• Caroline Grout
• Cécile Gay
• Martin De Bie
• Pauline Jamilloux
• Cristobal Karich
• Clara Daguin
• Kevin Garcia
• Melissa Guenet
• Romee de la Bigne
• Martin Letiec
• Ludovic Leger
