Swing Chair (2005) 

 

Design of Swing Chair is based on the examination on how people the cross cultural sitting behaviours in terms of comparison between chair sitting cultural behaviour and floor sitting clutural behaviour. Reflected on the cross cultural sitting behaviours to accommodate their demand of comfort, pleasure, adjustability and flexibility. Swing chair is, therefore, designed for the concept of playfulness. One of series of Swing chair is made out of cross stripes of bamboo, wire steel and elastic bends on metal-wire based. Swing with your memory from your childhood when you played with friends. It made you have fun. Swing for your comfort all day of your tiring work, entrust your body to gently movement. Then you become relaxed. Swing of having personal time when you sit and nobody interrupts your relaxation because it does not anymore into your personal space. 

 

This was MA project, Designing for Aesthetic Interaction, in 2005 at Curtin University in Perth. A design approach is introduced for designing a chair with added emotional aesthetics through a cross-cultural examination of sitting behaviour; for instance, by comparing floor sitting behaviour in Asian culture and chair sitting behaviour in Western culture. The study also entailed a comparison of cognitive images; for instance, comparison of the perception of comfort and of pleasure in relation to chair shape. The project contributes to how the design process (design methodology) can incorporate an emotional and interaction center approach through a cross-cultural perspective.