How to design sustainable products? This item should be functional, comfortable, easy to manufacture, look timeless and made with good quality from sustainable materials. This all is nice but its no use if we throw the item away shortly after using it for a while.
How to keep items in use for as long time as possible? Emotional connection is what makes us to take good care of our belongings, repair them if broken and pass them on to next generations.
How to create emotional connection between the user & an object? It is hard to predict what happens in the mind of the owner/user and why they get attached to the product. It might just be the color or shape, maybe it was a gift. The point is that there are countless reasons why attachment happens but can we design our products in a way that we could predict it?
My solution was to add a simple extra feature that evokes primary feelings and capsule them in the object.
Heritage chair is basically a time capsule where people can send messages, jokes, pictures or notes to next generations. Idea is to link this simple commodity item to a person thus linking people and memories together.
Secrecy is a chair with hidden drawers in the seating plate. We all have our secret places where to hide stuff that shouldn´t see daylight.
Expression chair, when new, comes with plane rectangular seating plate and backrest. It s meant to be used and renewed over time and generation by sanding. This will give the chair unique and non-recurring look at the time and place.
Materials- solid textile board, metal
2018
