Taboo
Taboo Biodegradable Chair by Ji Qi and Donghang Wang is a winner of the 2023 Bronze A' Design Award in Fine Arts and Art Installation Design.
Taboo is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a much prestigious recognition granted to outstanding designs distinguished by creativity, ingenuity, and astuteness.
Explore This Amazing WorkTaboo Biodegradable Chair
Inspired by the human female pelvis, the taboo chair is made of a special organic degradable no-fire clay, which is based on the traditional Chinese rammed earth construction concept, using topology optimization algorithms to improve the overall structure to ensure that it can withstand 1000 Nm of downforce while maintaining the bionic structure.The material used in the chair was invented to respond to the current call for energy saving and emission reduction, and can be degraded to organic fertilizer in landfills under suitable conditions.
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Taboo by Ji Qi and Donghang Wang
Core Functionality
Biodegradable Chair
Accolades
Fine Arts and Art Installation Design Award Winner in 2023.
Bronze Winner
Taboo Biodegradable Chair
Taboo is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a much prestigious recognition granted to outstanding designs distinguished by creativity, ingenuity, and astuteness. Bronze winners are amply skillful and strikingly creative artifacts that authenticate the vast experience, imagination, and resourcefulness of their designers. Taboo is expected to be a highly-regarded, admired, and cherished object that is notably professional and innovative. This Bronze A' Design Award-winning design incorporates best practices in art, science, design, and technology, and is excellent for its attention to detail. Taboo splendidly satisfies needs, touches desires, charms feelings, and appeals to curiosity.
Winner Client
Ceramics Studio of Nanjing University of the Arts
In 1981, the Department of Arts and Crafts was established in Nanjing University of th Arts, and at the same time, the Ceramics Studio was established, and in the fall of 1984, the first 12 students were enrolled in the Ceramics Art Department. Initially, the focus of teaching was to serve the purpose of training professional designers for ceramic production. Later, the teaching idea gradually changed from practical ceramic design to ceramic art creation and design. In the new era, the teaching of ceramic art has taken on new characteristics. The teaching content is broad and flexible. Professors and students explored experimental fields together, and research results won many top international prizes in contemporary art, design and craft. The Ceramics Studio of Nanjing University of the Arts is now the most experimental and pioneering ceramics research institute among Chinese universities.
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