sitz_mal!| school workshop & research toolkit
20223
sitz_mal!
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Bachelor Project & Thesis by Karlotta Leonie Paul
@ eocisgn/Akademy for Design, Cologne
Supervised by:
Uwe Boden, Jörg Gätjens & Bettina Beltz
Project Documentation:
sitzmal.de
The future of our society is sitting in school—on predominantly inadequate furniture. It is literally stuck in prefabricated patterns of thought, action, and posture. So far, the individual needs of learners have only been met with cautious design solutions.
Against this background, sitz_mal! explores the scope for leeway in the design of learning furniture. In a workshop under the leitmotif Prototype Suitable Learning Spaces, the shortcomings of existing seating are identified in a participatory manner with the learners. Through several research phases, the adolescents develop an awareness of their needs using tools from the research kit and translate their visions for suitable furniture into initial prototypes.
sitz_mal! thus outlines a proposal for how furniture design can be rethought in the context of individual requirements: from the standardized (school) chair to a process-oriented design that allows and encourages transformation and movement.