MIT students develop concepts for "the next 150-year chair"
A chair that can adapt over time and one fabricated with 3D-printed liquid metal are among the designs that students at MIT came up with for The Next 150-year Chair exhibition.
In total five pieces were created for the exhibition, which was a collaboration between American furniture company Emeco and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to conceptualise sustainable furniture pieces.
Top: students were asked to design sustainable furniture. Photo by Jeremy Bilotti. Above: Amelia Lee designed a chair called The Wable. Photo by Jeremy Bilotti
Called The Next 150-year Chair, the project was carried out via a course at MIT that guided students through a design process with access to Emeco's manufacturing technology.
The prompt was based on Emeco's 1006 Navy chair developed in 1944, which has a "150-year lifespan" according to the company. "Today, a 150-year chair means making something that lasts a long time, which is a great thing to do," said MIT associate professor Skylar Tibbits. "But the question is whether that will be the same for the next 150 years ? should the goal still be to make things that last forever""
"That's one approach, but maybe there's something that could be infinitely recyclable instead or something that's modular and reconfigurable."
The students took a variety of approaches to the prompt. Photo of Faith Jones' Rewoven Chair
The students each took a different approach to answering the question, an...
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