Stargazer – Dreaming of new horizons
Chiara Pinzan
Student
Chiara Pinzan Academic staff
Riccardo Berrone Francesco Alessandro Faccin Ingrid Kofler Course
Sit-In Program
BA Major Design Semester
2023/24 WS EN
Stargazer is a chair to look at the stars, reminiscing about the past to decide the path of the morning. The concept is born from the analysis of the Space Age Design, a movement which managed to convey joy, bewilderment, awe. My chair aims to gift those same emotions to society, by creating an urban place to reflect and wonder.
IT
Stargazer è una sedia per guardare le stelle, ponderando il passato per decidere il percorso da seguire nel mattino. Il concept nasce dall’analisi dello Space Age Design, un movimento che riuscì a comunicare gioia, stupore, meraviglia. La mia sedia mira a regalare queste stesse emozioni alla società, creando uno spazio urbano dove riflettere e meravigliarsi.
A project made in the course
Sit-In
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.
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