How can a chair help with the acceptance of ageing?

The chair is a complex object for several reasons. It has to comply with very intense structural forces and tensions, which is why it has always been considered a design challenge standing between aesthetics and statics. But the aspect that makes the chair truly unique as a category is its ability to represent times and styles, photographing a given historical moment much more effectively than other typologies of product.The chair in the last Century has ben assumed as a manifesto of a political idea, a vision about the future, and many designers have used it as an excuse to tell a story or activate a debate. In this semester, students will have to design a “seating machine” that is the embodiment of their own thinking related to processes, transportation needs, economic and production sustainability… The epilogue of the design path will be an event/round table open to everyone where students will have to debate, supporting their design choices in order to activate a constructive dialogue related to the great urgent issues of this era.