FOR YOUR CONಫORT

GRADUATE THESIS Critc WILLIAM VIRGIL SU2022

For Your Confort is an investigation of human postures through furniture, expanding on anthropometric relations, of the body and comfort. This is a correlation between constraint of the body and comfort , which derives the form of the chair.

The embodiment of different feelings and emotions based of the intensity and positions through our bodies has established a certain language of chairs . The exploration can be framed as de-antagonizing of the wrong, where wrong being the importance and the history of the correct posture(s). Historically there has always been an obsession of controlling and moulding the body, since the invention of the chair by the Egyptians. The body was meant to conform to the chair and be controlled, a desire to constantly constraint. Postures are always in a flux, ever changing in those movements and micro movements, through time , state and emotion. Colonialism played a major role in the aspect of introducing this control of the body to various distinct cultures ,which made an impact on these freeing ways of living. Yet for a leader like Gandhi , the action of sitting crosslegged amongst the people gave a sense of comfort and trust , in their postures through times of difficulty, which ties back into a deeper personal reality. At some level the scope to claim that we are currently living through a new stage of posture evolution related to the particular conditions of labor and leisure of the 2020s which design needs to reinvent itself to accommodate.

For Your Confort is a catalog of chairs which conform to the body in a fluid morphology and through a specific feeling of posture. As a result each posture of the body sculpts itself a desired chair , fluid and distinct from another. Unintentionally , the catalogue converts into a laboratory for design speculation revealing new ideas of comfort & constraint. The representative nature of these objects are only a reflection of the body and its movement. The ideology of comfort within our body is through position, and sensation. For comfort being in a specific posture , this thesis , provides those specific illustrations in which the chair is conforming to the posture, where comfort is only a matter of time.

From an office chair to a lounger , these objects turn into a cloth like entity , without concern of borders of rigidity , whilst structuring itself intentionally through features narrated by the embodiment.