Department of Architecture and Built Environment

Visual Communication IV | Industrial Design Programme | Bachelor level, year 3. 

The aim of the assignment Furniture in Transformation is to open for a reflection of the valuation and labelling of designed plastic objects. This will be achieved by analysing a so-called Modern Furniture Classic and then translating this analysis to a plastic chair through practical design work. The common white plastic chair is a helpful starting material, in that it offers and provokes different standpoints concerning aesthetic values, functionality and material techniques. Plastic is a debated and questioned material, yet it is a material that exists in abundance and could be taken care of and used in new ways. The transformation of the plastic chairs in this course should be seen an example of that.

Supervisors: Anna Petersson, Martin Svansjö and Mirjam Norinder