WOODIY – for kids, by kids
Efe Demirtas
Student
Efe Demirtas Academic staff
Riccardo Berrone Francesco Alessandro Faccin Ingrid Kofler Course
Sit-In Program
BA Major Design Semester
2023/24 WS Woodiy is designed for children to build their own chair. Using “Montessori Education” as an in- spiration which provides creativity and awareness. Learning about the craftmanship of every-day objects by creating something that can be built by kids. Woodiy can be adjusted for the child,
it grows with them.
This allows them to be more independent, provides awareness and creates the idea of having their own product. The chair can be built by just following some easy steps with guidance. It’s fit for3+ years of age.
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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