First Seat Project Description

For the first half of the "Seating in Context" project, we were instructed to create a chair out of cardboard, alone. We could use only one 4x4' sheet of cardboard and it had to be able to hold our own weight. Being able to hold our own weight was an idea that was already challenging enough on it's own. On top of that, we could not use glue, tape, or any adhesive. We also could not cut away parts of the cardboard, for it also had to be able to unfold into it's original 4x4' sheet. This was extremely frustrating at first, but after playing with cardboard and simply testing how it bent, folded, tore, cut, supported, etc., I was able to come up with some cool ideas. At first I thought that having to be able to unfold it into it's original shape was a big deal, but then I realized since the original sheet of cardboard is already small as it is, it was probably to our advantage that we use the whole sheet. My first chair ended up looking like a geometric stool. I really liked it and how weird and different it was. Unfortunately, I did not know until after I had started that we could not use tape on the first chair so I ended up using some tape to keep it together. I cheated slightly, but to be fair, I did not have the intention of cheating. Although the first chair was challenging and had a little bit of a time crunch, it was good experimentation experience for my final chair.