Desk Chair
This is my everyday desk chair that I use for work. It makes me feel super productive when I work at my desk station versus the couches or bean bag chairs scattered all over the office and it makes me feel like whatever I’m doing at my desk must be super important. We have these chairs at every desk in the office regardless of your role. It functions like any other desk chair would. It is well cushioned which I appreciate. It’s a decent chair, but I find it’s not always super comfortable for my back (hence the pillow). Since our office space is very open, I find that the wheels play a huge part in my day to day. The ergonometric nature of this chair allows me to slide over to person behind me when I want to ask a question or simply move the chair to face the person next to me when we discuss something. I don’t necessarily have to get up and move around as much due to the proximity and physical placement of most of the people I work with. They are at most a glide away.
Bean Bag Chair
The bean bag chair is a ball of stuffing that your body just sinks into. The cushion is super comfortable and gives more off a more relaxed feel than a standard chair. This is my favorite spot to sit at when I feel I do not need to collaborate with anyone in the office which is around the same time as when my workload decreases and I have some time to “relax”. I find myself usually sitting there later in the workday when all that’s left for me to work on is busy work. It is my destress zone that allows me to still be productive.
Ottoman Chair/Table
These chairs are mainly used for when there aren’t enough seats in a meeting room. They are colorful and sturdy ottomans that are not very comfortable. It does its job during the ironically named daily “stand up” meeting. No one lasts more than one hour on that chair and if they had to, you’d usually see them standing. However, their flat surface allows it to be more versatile in a sense that it acts as both a chair and table. It comes with an optional metal top if you wish to transform the cushion top to a metal top and assure the safety of items stacked on top of it. These chairs are multi-functional but not the most comfortable.
Outdoor Chair
This is the chair I typically sit on when I take my lunch outside to the courtyard and want some fresh air. It’s a standard metal and wooden chair with legs and no arms. It’s not the most comfortable but it serves its purpose for the 30 minutes that I sit on it. It’s not the best chair, but it’s not the worst. It’s very much a standard chair and I have no feelings towards it whatsoever. It’s just okay.
Clothes Chair
Everyone’s favorite chair. It’s situated in the corner of my bedroom where This chair represents how I am doing in life and looking at affects my mood. If I look at this chair and it’s empty, I know I have my life together and makes me feel accomplished. However, if it has a pile of clothes and bags on top, I know I’m due for a reorganization of not only my stuff, but my priorities. The chair itself is fantastic. It bends in all the right places to make for the perfect chair in terms of structure and design. What it represents is what I love most about it. Its job is to silently tell me “good job” or “what are you doing with your life?”
Driver’s Car Seat
I sit on this chair pretty much everyday. It is a well-cushioned, adjustable, pleather chair that makes each car ride as comfortable as possible. The sides of the chair are designed to curve around your body to limit the undesirable body movements when turning. They are perfect for everyday commutes and can get uncomfortable on long car rides.
Toilet Seat
Ah, the porcelain throne. The seat itself is not meant to be super comfortable, but rather sturdy, durable, working, and easy to clean. I’m not sure what else to say except that it does its job and it’s not meant to be comfortable for a long period of time.
Yep, another post that covers a variety of chairs :-). Interesting to note that the chair in your bedroom is a visual cue for you not just about the tactical daily stuff but also metaphorically about life. And maybe there’s a reason some thrones are designed for its audience to sit as much as only necessary.
Although my following comment is not a part of the assignment, in the spirit of lateral and connected thinking that Jesse encourages us to engage with – how much of how we view an object -like the powerful desk chair in comparison to the lazy bean bag, is due to its own design attributes and how much of it is due to learned norms (cultural aspects, but not culture literally). I guess your post got me thinking about how might we view the bean bag and desk chair if we lived in a world where bean bags were the official chairs where everyone sat down to get serious work done. Maybe there’s a better example but the point is how much of these feelings towards objects are because of the way they are designed vs. because of our mental models/norms when it comes to using them.