´Family of chairs´ an exploration with discarded furniture

One day a familily of discarded chairs knocked at my door. They all had different problems: wear and tear, missing seats etc. I invited them in and started playing, rearranging and new images started emerging.

´Seat with a View´is produced in co-operation with Kongsvinger Fengsel

The second version of ´Seat with a view´ is now ready to pick up at the local prison. I made the first version myself and now the next version is ready for testing out.

If you want the rainbow, you have to put up with the rain

I am interested in looking at the tiny little happenings and rituals in everyday life. 

How can I tranform these tiny little happenings and daily banalities into objects of reflection?

When entering the hallway in my home, there is always a little water on the floor from wet shoes and clothing or from a wet umbrella on a rainy day. Taking a look at the everyday world and these tiny little happening and rituals, and then creating stories and objects from these everyday banalities.

Waste-water on a rainy day, leads to the growth of a plant in your hallway. ´If you want the rainbow, you´ve gotta put up with the rain´

´Para-site´

Can people be encouraged to misbehave when confronted with furniture designed to invite people to break with models of normality?

´Para-site´ (workingtitle) is an attempt to challenge the conformities of seating and systems of conventions related to seating, in this case conventions around the act of sitting. The user is seduced into breaking with good social etiquette, into new rituals and to sit on the table. 

Can a design object be regarded as an embodiment of potencial patterns of behaviour and ideology?

Can a design object draw attention to the boundaries of normal behaviour and thoughts by intervening in everyday situations?

I try to explore the potentially subversive possibillities of this parallel world of illicit pleasures related to the experience around objects, causing a kind of surreal conversation and breaking down the limits suggested to us by normal furniture.

Changing perspective on seating

Seat with a View

Seat with a view is an exploration of unusual ways of thinking about furniture. What is a chair and what more could a chair be? Here I have tried to shift the emphasis from issues of style and image to more psychological use of furniture as tools for reflection.

I wish to provoke the viewer or user to think about the nature of the intervention and the desires that motivate it. Criticizing the limits of objects and their usual functions, I want to explore how objects can appeal more to the poetic and dreamy sides of people. 

A Design Perspective

¨We are lacking a discipline, perhaps an ´objectology´, or an ´ object ethology ´, which allows us to analyse and systematise objects and to formulate the rules and codes of their behaviour....a discipline which recovers and updates the interrupted discourse of material culture, in crisis since the world of objects was taken over by the world of products and the world of consumption¨ Susani, 1992, 42

How can the language of design be questioned?

How can design be used as a commentary?

How can design function as artistic speculation?

How can designers reclaim their position in the critical debate about objects using their own language as a playful weapon to reclaim it?