Art/ificial
Speculating the evolution of stool archetype in the new contexts of active sitting and technology
Art/ificial is an object for temporary, open and active seating that reflects the contemporary lifestyle. It is an object-hypothesis questioning the potential of innovative technologies and artificial intelligence in opening up new form and production possibilities for speculating future environments.
Always present in personal or shared spaces, as an on-demand chair or a sculptural object-experiment whose appearance remains to be developed through interaction.
The asymmetric form is created with generative design – using algorithms and artificial intelligence principles in dialogue with the designer-as-editor. Such unforeseen design solutions, though difficult to imagine, in fact follow the optimization principles of natural evolution in form-making.
The lightweight convenient stool (1,8 kg) is made using additive technology – exploring a new field of what is possible to realize through experimentation.
A reinvention of the chair archetype is long overdue in the context of destructuring traditional roles and hierarchies in creative spaces – work and lifestyle becoming increasingly temporary, active, cooperative and open. This should be reflected in active sitting that encouraging connection and movement between multiple activities and contexts.
Initially, the form is created as a calculation of physical constraints and requirements. But in the structurally optimized, uniquely complex geometry resembling a live being — it reflects the natural in algorithms, revealing the play of intuitive balance, movement and inherent humanity.
The final project is followed by a catalogue of generative experiements as an exploration of what is a chair, and what can it become?
