Aditi

Aditi developed from an Art Center Design Matters sponsored project. The prompt was to design furniture for the fast growing low income housing sector of India. The project included a 10 day trip to Bangalore India, where ethnographic research was conducted. We were able to interview first time homeowners, families who still lived in the slums, and furniture manufactures.

Families transitioning from the slums into low income housing developments are making a large change into a global society and deserve the right to have access to well designed furniture. Furniture that will now become a symbol to the community of their move up the social ladder, a proud accomplishment!

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Design

Aditi is an air blown plastic stack-able chair that makes accommodating your guests easy and affordable. Designed to take up less space than the current plastic chairs that are on the market in India, Aditi provides your guest a comfortable place to rest, all they will need is a nice hot cup of chai and they will feel right at home.

The chair is designed with the idea of Indian hospitality heavily in mind. Every place we went we were offered plastic chairs to sit in and a nice hot cup of chai to drink. But in a society where floor culture is very prevalent and home space is very limited, I realized the chairs were a luxury that were taking up too much space and lifting us off the ground making it uncomfortable to place the hot chai cup on the ground.

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Aditi

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