The FurniTeacher furniture design competition calls all applicants to design furniture that will improve education and recreation for students in India. Rural and semi-urban schools in India often lack access to adequate print media to learn from, so educators are pushed to maximize the use of the physical space. Walls, blackboards, and flooring all emerge as potential means of teaching. Since these schools often lack access to adequate infrastructure, students of these schools are forced to inhabit these spaces without comfortable furniture for the whole school duration.
The challenge here is to design a modular furniture solution that can be implemented in rural and semi-urban Indian schools. The solution should act primarily as effective and comfortable furniture for children to use during their school day. Apart from acting as furniture, the object should be able to transform to act as a potential platform to help transfer knowledge to the students. The solution can be one single changeable form or be composed of multiple smaller forms that work together in both scenarios. The material must be cost-effective and durable.
Objectives:
- Form: The furniture design should draw inspiration from existing furniture typologies in similar environments
- Plurality: The design should be usable in multiple configurations
- Transfer Knowledge: The design must be capable of adding to the educational experience of the students.
- Materials: What materials, colours, finishes would one employ in the creation of such a project?
