2. Technical misinformation:
- Not using images is something deliberated. Words are
also images in your mind
- White paper is also a way of no-thing, and
deliberated.
- White pages are a place for thinking in what you never
thought before.
- The reader will have to use his or her imagination
- If you are not able to be open-minded stop reading.
- Simple is wisdom
4. Background:
Foreground:
Designers are so obsess of designing chairs, screws
and surfaces, that they almost forgot that chairs are for
sitting. That every place you can sit on can be your chair…
With this project what I want to achieve is an
abstraction of chairs. Thinking about what a chair really
is. Reducing something designed many times to the basic
concept of what it is for:
TO SIT
Nowadays there is no need of more chairs in the world.
There is only the vanity and the will of fame from so many
designers, which I find a senseless irresponsible act.
I’m not a designer.
Nevertheless I know there are designers. I know that
this project is not something so new. This year, 2012, have
been selected as the year of NOT designing chairs. Also,
companies as VITRA have different models of objects that
they can be use to sit.
This a step forward.
This is a challenge to the contest itself.
The competition claims that:
This international competition intends to
stress the idea that Design does have a real
impact upon peoples’ quality of life, while
5. acknowledging that excellence in design has no
borders.
From this point of view, chairs do have an
iconic value. One may even say that,
symbolically, chairs can translate the vision
their author has of the world, of life styles, of
innovation and even his thoughts on the
discipline itself.
Do those lines really mean something? Or this is just
a campaign for promoting the companies that are behind the
contest.
Breaking an icon like chair presenting no-thing has
also an iconic value. We deny the social conventions
through the abstraction. Each parson has an incredible
capacity and will to do.
It’s time for a change.
Design has a meaning today, it’s submitted to the
industry forgetting about people. Design seeks a model in
which you can find universal solutions to problems. This
creates a model that rules nature and humans. Design
promotes lifestyles and consumerism. This project is about
something that designers have forgotten about.
Why we can only sit on chairs?
What if people just sit?
What if we just learn not to design?
6. No-thing:
No-thing is everything.
Everything you can sit on should be your chair.
Everything is relative.
Everything is falling apart.
No-thing is the essence of everything. Through this
project I seek the nature of an object in the stage of no-
thinking. What it means approaching to the action not the
object. In this case:
TO SIT
To sit is an action that is in everyone’s
subconscious. That implies that everything, as well as no-
thing, involves what is in the mind. Not the physical
aspects of the objects.
Chairs only offer an illusion of permanence.
Everything is falling apart. There is no need of keep going
designing chairs, we just have to accept that what we need
is to sit, rest, and keep our mind clear.
Now look around. Think of what kids are doing when
they play. By no-thing I want to become detached of
unnecessary things. Break up with the material attachment
and also hierarchical thinking.
No-thing as a concept is something abstract. Anyone
can find an answer by itself just by the act of acting.
No-thing is keen and sharp.
No-thing is simple.
7.
8. Indications to sit:
Besides is a normal a regular activity that humans in
general are doing quite regular. They don’t think about too
much.
Learn from the ones who had no habits.
There is your not-so-expensive chair; you will learn how to
sit when you forget about constructing chairs:
1. – Find yourself feeling yourself
2. – Empty your mind; if you are tired or need to rest
3. – Look around
4. – Pick a place
5. – Go there
6. – Place your bottom in the place:
a. – If comfortable: Stay there until you are not
tired or don’t need to rest anymore
b. – If uncomfortable: go 3 and repeat
9. Relevant understanding
Simple things are a way to wisdom.
Everything is no-thing.
Everything can be a place for sit.
- Explore yourself
- Explore your world
10. You cannot represent no-thing;
As well you cannot represent everything.
Open your mind.
11.
12. Everything has no presence.
No-thing is the antithesis of universal.
Not created, not destroyed.
13.
14. Find yourself not thinking of a chair now.
When there is no chair, there are no limits or needs.
No components or restrictions.
