About the project
The Tension Chair is a stool that utilises the mechanical principle of tensegrity to create the illusion of a floating seat.
The explicitly distributed and open source nature of the project teaches students about the possibilities digital fabrication has to offer in changing the relationship between the design and consumer – exemplified in the Udemy course; Design for Distributed. Lastly, The chair is simple enough to be fabricated on most CNC routers and the functional components are readily accessible in any hardware store, making it easy to build and assemble the chair, perhaps in small teams of students, to get hands on experience working with distributed furniture design.
