Our starting point was a post-humanist perspective, where we decided to take on a plant as our primary user, when designing a chair. This resulting in that the human user would have to take a step back, as the secondary user.

We started discussing the negative impact human behaviour has had on our planet and its ecosystems. Over the past century, humanity has exerted control over natural resources and non-human life forms. Our needs have been met at the expense of nature and wildlife, and we are now faced with the consequences of that. In this project we aimed to address the imbalance by prioritising the plant as a user and creating a piece that demanded something in return.

When creating the Chia-Chair, we wanted to make a seating that both plant and human could appreciate, and explore where such a design process would lead us. Actually, we would even go as far as to argue that it is only logical that the plant is the primary user as it is the inhabitant of the chair, while the human is merely a temporary visitor from time to time.