Milan Design Week 09: Post Futurist Manifesto Talks: Alice Wang
Posted in: UncategorizedThe designer Alice Wang visited us in the Appartamento in Milan and talked to us about her approach to design and the methodologies she uses. Looking at mundane activities from a psychological and emotional point of view with a particular interest in the man machine relationship, she manages to create everyday objects with a certain twist, unmasking the “dark side” of our everyday actions. Her latest project Chairs for the Dysfunctional is dealing with the fact that the society we live in is changing and therefore the interactive side of these daily objects should change with us. “Perhaps the function of the objects stay, but it is the process of how we interact with them that must change. Should there be different chairs designed for people with different sitting habits? Do you sit on all four legs or just two? Do you continuously shake your leg? Or do you like to sit with your back facing the public?” This series of chairs, presented at this year’s Salone Satellite in Milan, illustrates each of these stories. “Will these chairs become props that normalize the unwelcomed habits? Or will they act as therapy to “cure” one’s syndromes?”
This chair is specially designed for people who tilt their chairs. It has a spirit leveler attached to the side allowing one to measure how balanced one is.
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