The NCD-C or NO-CHAIR-DESIGN Campaign is going well. I am really happy that we have been featured on Instructables and that some 600 people have read the tutorial on how NOT to design chairs there. But only a fraction of people reading the material we provide have taken the time to come on our site and fill the on site form. Something must be done to solve this. Stuff needs to be packaged in a more nicer way. Perhaps a direct link to the form should be included in the emails we have send to promote the project.
Pushing the project into different kinds of social medias has promoted the cause but this is messing how the project is handled. We now have some 10 different site to maintain and update.
To help with entropy in the project some kind of solid and absolute manifesto would be useful.
Experience has show that when inviting people to take part in something a project should NOT be called art (because people are bored with art) nor should it be framed politically (because people will think the project will narrow their possibilities in the future) and possibly the most inspiring design project have not been framed as design but something else. The more easy a complicated project is explained the better the outcome. Humour in solves near all issues.
But but I cant hide the cultural agenda we are working for. I have not tried to put my finger on it… What would really happen if designers would not develop new chairs… What kind of utopia is this project working for. Just to contemplate on these questions I think it would be nice to create some kind of manifesto
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