Furniture Shaoyu “Will” Wang

Regenerative “Chair”

1. Relating to something growing or being grown again.

2. Relating to the improvement of a place or system, especially by making it more
active or successful, or to making a person feel happier and more positive.
(Cambridge Dictionary)

“ If I was asked to make even a conservative estimate of the number of chairs in

the world, I’d find it hard to go lower than eight to 10 per person. ”
“ As to why there are suddenly so many chairs, there is no single clear reason. It is
a confluence of fashion, politics, changing work habits, and the lust for comfort.
The last of these requires no explanation in a culture where ease and comfort are
among the strongest drivers of consumer decision-making. ”
(Vybarr Cregan-Reid, 2018)

There is a lot of chairs in our daily life, it has become such a ubiquitous and
essential piece of furniture that it's often taken for granted. The chair is like a
symbiotic creature that exists in human history. People make chairs, and chairs
provide people with comfort.
Regenerative “Bone”

1. Relating to something growing or being grown again.

(Cambridge Dictionary)

Posture data capture

Capture the sitting posture of the “me”. Use AI to analyze the posture with the
longest stay and find the most comfortable posture for “me”. Use this data to create
(design) the "bones" (main structure) of the chair.
Regenerative “Muscle”

1. Relating to something growing or being grown again.

(Cambridge Dictionary)

(Studio Ilio, 2015)

Metal dip coating process
Dip coating is a process by which substrate material is submerged in conformal
coating, then taken out and allowed to drip dry. Also, there are designs who use the
similar method to reuse the waste nylon material to create products.
This method is suitable for making some organic shapes, and it can be mass-
produced without causing too much waste. I will try to find some discarded plastic
to build the "muscle" of the chair.
Manifesto

1. Think regenerative from different level of meaning. (Digital & physical)

2. Think about the relationship between chairs and people. (Treat the chair as a creature)
3. Explore the collaboration between designer & AI. (Concept generate & form explore)
Material & form exploration Form

Using clay, wood, and clay pebbles

to simulate the “growing” process.
Using clay and wire to explore the
form and simulate the Hot wire
extension production process.
(Will Wang, 2023)
Material & form exploration Material

“Bone and Muscale” Wire & clay Inspiration “Skin” Clay pebbles and isomalt
(simulate nylon)
(Marco Campardo, 2022) (Will Wang, 2023)
(Will Wang, 2023)
Thank you Reference

Vybarr Cregan-Reid, 2018 Why we are living in the age of the chair?, BBC
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20181108-the-anthropocene-should-be-
known-as-the-age-of-the-chair

Studio Ilio, 2015 Hot Wire Extension Production process

https://designswitzerland.ch/2019/03/15/studio-ilio-exploring-alternative-
processes/#:~:text=Studio%20Ilio%20focuses%20on%20material,to
%20sculptural%20objects%20and%20installations.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ACKBwlO9ONE&cbrd=1&cbrd=1&cbrd=1

Marco Compardo, 2022 “Reversible” , Design Museum

https://marcocampardo.com/project/the-lost-clay-workshop/