Universal Seat

Building empathy, changing the perception of universal seating, and creating an experimental kind of body metrics.

"Sit in someone's shoes" is a passive installation designed for public space. It prompts the user to sit in preformed chairs, that are custom molded to people of different sizes and backgrounds. The stories of each person are presented. This installation is designed to shatter the notion that there is such thing as a "one size fits all" universal seating solution. 

The second part of the concept is a machine that would give end users ownership over their own information. This machine would actively measure a person who sits on it, both determining the contours of the body, and correctly positioning the spine of the user.

This information is then sent to the user, who owns it. The user can then have a number of consumer products made with this information about their own body, without the intervention of doctors or therapists. This machine lives in public space and is available to anyone. 

The user can choose to use this information about their own body, to have specialty products quickly manufactured, such as wheelchairs and other seating systems.